Comments on: Rebuttle of “Intelligent Design” http://euphemize.net/blog/archives/2005/11/18/rebuttle-of-intelligent-design/ nullae paenitentiae Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:28:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://euphemize.net/blog/archives/2005/11/18/rebuttle-of-intelligent-design/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Daniel Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:39:41 +0000 http://euphemize.net/wordpress/archives/2005/11/18/rebuttle-of-intelligent-design/#comment-764 This is a much more specific version of the idea that God, as creator of all the elegant and sometimes befuddling wonder around us, should be smart enough to have been able to imbue nature with a self-regulating process of improvement, i.e. evolution or natural selection. There is nothing fruitful in the dichotomy of, on the one hand, the supposition that the universe is so complex and at times counter-intuitive that we should assume it is from God's hand; and, on the other hand, the supposition that natural selection is counter-intuitive, and so can't be valid. The real loss here is that there is so much commonality to be appreciated, yet it is the differences which hold ground. To wit: I may have fallen in love with Jackson's rendition of <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>, and consider it so sublime as to have transcended a mere product of a movie studio, and have no interest in tearing it apart (watching the making-of footage); and you may have fallen in love with Jackson's rendition and can't help but pore over the making-of footage to understand its inner workings. Each of us (in this example) agrees that the trilogy is a masterpiece, but approach his appreciation quite differently. This is a much more specific version of the idea that God, as creator of all the elegant and sometimes befuddling wonder around us, should be smart enough to have been able to imbue nature with a self-regulating process of improvement, i.e. evolution or natural selection. There is nothing fruitful in the dichotomy of, on the one hand, the supposition that the universe is so complex and at times counter-intuitive that we should assume it is from God’s hand; and, on the other hand, the supposition that natural selection is counter-intuitive, and so can’t be valid.

The real loss here is that there is so much commonality to be appreciated, yet it is the differences which hold ground. To wit: I may have fallen in love with Jackson’s rendition of The Lord of the Rings, and consider it so sublime as to have transcended a mere product of a movie studio, and have no interest in tearing it apart (watching the making-of footage); and you may have fallen in love with Jackson’s rendition and can’t help but pore over the making-of footage to understand its inner workings. Each of us (in this example) agrees that the trilogy is a masterpiece, but approach his appreciation quite differently.

]]> By: Stephen Manning http://euphemize.net/blog/archives/2005/11/18/rebuttle-of-intelligent-design/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Stephen Manning Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:27:49 +0000 http://euphemize.net/wordpress/archives/2005/11/18/rebuttle-of-intelligent-design/#comment-759 Good point! Not that I'm on either side, but it does make a good 'Devil's Advocate' argument. Good point! Not that I’m on either side, but it does make a good ‘Devil’s Advocate’ argument.

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