Re: Ben Stein's Movie EXPELLED - Could we have been "designed" by Space

David Johnston wrote:
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> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:42:36 GMT, "Donald E. Flood"
> <Jehanne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >"dennisosm" <denniskriz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:e415c9c2-2423-4a43-93e8-ad1684c6c951@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Hi folks,
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> >> An implication from Ben Stein's movie "Expelled: No Intelligence
> >> Allowed" for me was that "intelligent design" _need not_ require "God
> >> language" but simply a designer, the designer simply being an older,
> >> higher intelligence -- "space aliens" ;-)
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> >Correct.  ID would not prove supernaturalism or the existence of God.
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>  Since the premise of ID is that only an intelligence could create
> something complicated and "functional",
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Is that the "premise"? What if evolution could do it and an
intelligence could do it too?


> and such an intelligence would
> itself be something complicated and "functional" there is no way to
> avoid resorting to Goddidit if you accept the premise.  That's the
> point.
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What if God did it? You don't leave potential possibilities open
when you conclusively insist on one answer before the facts are all
in.


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