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Flap over use of term “intelligent design” in PNAS paper

It’s possible that what Phillips means by “positive Darwinian selection” is random selection that looks a lot like design. The sin is in actually using words that imply that that IS what it looks like. Just when it looks like they’ve hammered everything into submission, another bulge appears.

martin_r SA, also, thank you for looking at my blog at Stuffhappens.info (Stuffhappens.info) taken as a whole it’s devastating. Yes, it... – How could we test universal common...
martin_r SA, you know that English is not my first language, but it is pretty clear how to interpret Wilson's words.... – How could we test universal common...
es58 Pollistra@1 After 10 years working in science, the structures and functions of the cochlea were my epiphany. I know a... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
Paxx Evidence. It's all that matters. – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Belfast It’s more than possible that discussion on “intelligent design” will fade away because of the wrong decision in the Dover... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
Lieutenant Commander Data I was looking for explanations how the ribosome(translation) identify and allow in site A the correct tRNA who bring the... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
kairosfocus PPPS, I have added the update. I also note the obvious again. The first inference archaeologists make is natural/archaeological, and... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
kairosfocus PPS, Astrophysicist and lifelong agnostic, Sir Fred Hoyle: >>[Sir Fred Hoyle, In a talk at Caltech c 1981 (nb. this... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
Silver Asiatic All ID can say from the science is that there is evidence of intelligent design in nature. It cannot tell... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
kairosfocus JH, at this point, Falling back on the ‘scientists can’t explain it therefore God…oops… ID, argument. . . . is... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
Silver Asiatic LCD If we project these qualities over an unknown Designer there is no room for a deist type of designer.... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
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Lieutenant Commander Data To reject deism is to say that ID knows “what kind of God the designer is”. That’s religion. Science cannot... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
ET JHolo- Grow up. The design inference is based on our KNOWLEDGE of cause-and-effect relationships, as science demands. In over 150... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
ET Why do evolutionists conflate IDists' personal beliefs with ID? – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
JHolo KF: JH, there may be evidence of artifacts or possible artifacts indeed (think here geophysical scans), but that in itself... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
jerry You think ID science can tell you that? Again, you are just making things up. Why? By the way Meyer’s... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
Silver Asiatic Jerry What distinguishes a theistic god from a deistic one. You think ID science can tell you that? Is Zeus... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
jerry So, you’re saying that ID tells us who the designer is – it must be a theistic God and not... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
Fasteddious Some hand-waving here: There are thought to be perhaps 10 million species at present (give or take). Over geological time,... – Some species thought to be extinct...
kairosfocus JH, there may be evidence of artifacts or possible artifacts indeed (think here geophysical scans), but that in itself implies... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...