Posted on 05/06/2009 4:51:49 PM PDT by RobinMasters
A reprise of last nights ballyhooed fiasco with Mike Pence. Sir Tancelot does better hes not evasive, at least but to borrow a line from The Princess Bride, Im not sure intelligent design means what he thinks it means. Near as I can tell, hes attempting to square the circle by imagining an essentially deist god (or intelligence) that created all species in some primitive form and then let evolution go to work in turning them into the creatures we know today.
I thought most ID-ers believe that life today is, more or less, how the designer originally designed it. If not, if its simply about proving that theres a designer somewhere in a process that might have taken billions of years, then its really just Darwinism + a remote God at the very beginning, no?
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