[papertyger]

I thought you were maintaining life could have been designed to evolve (in the orthodox sense)?

Was I mistaken?

[tacticalogic]

I thought you were maintaining life could have been designed to evolve (in the orthodox sense)?

I was. And the counter argument was that this is no different than something that wasn't designed at all doing the same thing. There was no explanation of why they are the same, just a bare assertion that they were.