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The utility of ID

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nwr
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11-03-2005 8:17 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Larni
10-27-2005 9:38 AM

What could we use an evidence based ID theory for?
Supposedly ID would tell us that an object was designed, but it would not identify the designer.
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It is hard for me to see the use. Normally we would want to find the designer.
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11-10-2005 10:53 PM

bump
A flurry of activity on ID this week.
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The question is still open. If ID were true, what would be the use?
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11-12-2005 9:23 AM 		Reply to: Message 39 by Tusko
11-12-2005 6:03 AM

Everything is designed
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since, using ID logic, everything is designed (either by God or by man) it wouldn't be possible to tell anything apart from anything else.
Excellent point, Tusko. Somehow, I think we mostly missed that until you pointed it out.
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Maybe for Dembski, this is wrong. He seems to allow that stalactites and snowflakes are not designed, since they are the result of known natural processes. But many christians would indeed say that stalactites and snowflakes are designed by God. And since ID proponents are mainly creationist christians, that must surely be the consensus view of the ID folk.
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