Who are people like me? Are you putting me in a group? If so what group?
The group is: People who talk about Intelligent Design and the wonder why people associate them with Christianty.
This is unfortunate. In my mind, intelligent and design are two words in common usage in the english language. As for the two words being used together........ that the two words together is an invention stretches credibility. I can look for historical usageof the words in combination which predate what you mentioned above, but is that really necessary? I make the hypothesis that intelligent design are two common words used together to communicate a simple idea and that such usage predates your invention. I leave it to you to prove or disprove this.
Okay. First off, you admit that you are unfamiliar with the Discovery Institute, have not heard of the book
Of Pandas and People, and have never seen the Wedge Document.
Those three things are the defining features of both the invention and the wide spread usage of the phrase "Intelligent Design".
The term "Intelligent Design", as you are using it, was invented in 1987 after the Supreme Court case
Edwards v. Aguillard, where it was ruled that creationism is unconstitutional in public school science curricula.
Timeline of intelligent design - Wikipedia
As for the two words being used together........ that the two words together is an invention stretches credibility.
I get what you're saying. But look at it like this: the words "pro" and "choice" must have been used together at some point before abortion was a thing. Now, if you were in a discussion about, say, whether or not you should choose the order for the meal for your wife, and you come in saying that you are Pro-Choice, I don't think you should be surprised that someone mistook you for talking about abortion.
And if they did, would you really argue against them because the words "pro" and "choice" must have been used together in the past and therefore you can use that phrase to describe whether or not your wife should have the choice in what she orders for dinner? Ya know what I'm saying? Pro-Choice is a thing. Intelligent Design is a thing. To use those phrases to talk about other things that they are not is going to cause confusion.
for instance I could say I am gay (meaning happy) and be misunderstood. Another instance of a word being hijacke.
Exactly. Except in this case, Intelligent Design means something specific and you have hijacked it to use it to mean something else.
In
Message 508, you wrote:
My logical argument allows that evolution could have happened exactly as science has said.
See, this is why you cannot be talking about Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design is the idea that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."
Intelligent Design requires the explicit rejection of evolution. If you ain't rejecting evolution, then you ain't talkin' 'bout ID.
Cat Sci writes:
Ever single idea we have ever been aware of has come from a brain.
That is a strong statement. Has science been done to support it?
Huh? What do you mean? Ideas are things that happen in brains. That is what they are.
Cat Sci writes:
From this we can scientifically induce, tentatively, that all ideas come from brains.
Based on the unsupported ipso facto statement you just made.
But that's just how science works. Every single scientific fact has the exact same support.
Cat Sci writes:
If you don't think so, then point to one idea that did not come from a brain.
Sure....... something on the order of let there be Tai Chi.
That idea came from your brain. Can you show me an idea that didn't come from a brain?
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