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Author Topic:   What does ID theory say?
Meddle
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Message 29 of 67 (488635)
11-13-2008 8:29 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Cold Foreign Object
11-12-2008 7:48 PM


Re: Design theory
Most IDists are not Fundamentalists; Jonathan Wells, William Dembski and Michael Behe, for example. The comment above says ID will be slandered as Fundamentalism.
Fundamentalists, by and large, are mostly YECs who accept microevolution, like all Atheists.
Both Wells and Dembski have stated they accept 'microevolution', as does the discovery institute which includes speciation in its definition of 'microevolution', which contradicts your view that species are immutable. Behe goes further and accepts common ancestry as an explanation for the similarities between species. So are these folks fundamentalists or atheists?
Given such a great disparity in beliefs about what constitutes intelligent design, is there a single intelligent design hypothesis, or is it simply so vague that anyone can shoehorn their views into it?
I'd be interested in what you think 'microevolution' is, and why you think it does not occur, but that may be off topic.
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But the predominant fact concerning paleontology is stasis: species appear suddenly, endure unchanged, disappear abruptly leaving no descendants
If the species were designed, why did they abruptly disappear? What does this tell us about your intelligent designer?

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