Henry J
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| Quote | | So what exact mechanism did God use? I can't say that I know, but I do know this: It is the same mechanism that you use every day - creativity channeled through some sort of natural medium. |
Evolution as presently understood would qualify as a natural medium, would it not?
The problem with argument from "design", is that designed objects are identified (when they are) by detecting signs of engineering (i.e., implementation of a design); i.e., how was the object built.
Cars, stonehenge, beaver dams, bee hives, etc., are built by the deliberate action of life forms, either directly, or indirectly through machinery in the case of a technologically advanced species such as us.
Life forms themselves are built by the metabolic processes of their parents and themselves; that is why it's premature to assume they were deliberately engineering by somebody else, unless and until evidence has been found of either the somebody or the means of engineering.
It isn't that scientists won't consider it, it's that they want to see the evidence first.
Henry
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