MrH:
John Paul, in response to my request that he provide an example of intelligent agency being responsible for the design of a biological organism or structure, claims:
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Humans create baby humans. Humans would be considered an intelligent agent. Nature has never been observed giving life. Nature has been observed taking life.
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John Paul:
MrH's continued dishonesty is duly noted. My above response was NOT in response to MrH's request that I "provide an example of intelligent agency being responsible for the design of a biological organism or structure". Rather it was in response to this:
MrH:
Again, no intelligent agency has ever been observed creating a baby, a tree, a bacterium, or anything in biology.
MrH:
Humans do not sequence the genomes of their offspring and consciously administer the process of cell division that makes a fertilized egg into a baby.
John Paul:
How do you know? Are you saying that nature does sequence the genomes? Where is your evidence?
MrH:
This is not an example of intelligent design, it's controlled by the biochemical DNA replication process. This natural process, too, has never been shown to depend on intelligent agency.
John Paul:
Can you provide any evidence that DNA replication or the reproduction of a cell or cellular differentiation is a natural process, ie created by nature?
Once again MrH has refused to show that nature can do anything in biology.
And yes I consider bacteria and trees to be intelligent agents. You may not understand their intelligence but that does not mean it doesn't exist.
This message has been edited by John Paul, 06-17-2004 12:31 PM