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To: narby
Like I said, read up on Dembski’s explanatory filter. As one blogger put it: “Dr. Dembski’s Explanatory Filter (EF) is intended to distinguish between regularity, chance and design. Here “regularity” indicates something that arises from the action of natural laws - a snowflake is formed the normal operation of the physics of water and of clouds so it is not designed. “Chance” is due to chance - the positions of pebbles on a beach are due to chance and not to design. Design is defined by Dembski as anything that is neither regularity nor chance.”

Does that mean the cloud is not the product of design. No. But because the cloud can be explained by chance and regularity, it is excluded by definition.

47 posted on 06/23/2007 3:50:28 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
But because the cloud can be explained by chance and regularity...

And so can evolution of the species. So by Dembski's "filter", the various species we see around us are not evidence for "design".

51 posted on 06/23/2007 4:03:01 PM PDT by narby
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