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Does evolution support intelligence driven design?

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Dr Adequate
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12-23-2007 7:14 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by sinequanon
12-23-2007 6:16 PM

But surely people do make intelligent decisions when choosing partners. It's not just instinct is it?
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The sense in which they are designing their descendants when they do so seems rather tenuous. I might, I suppose, choose a red-haired wife in the hope (for whatever reason) of having red-haired children, but can it be said that in that case I designed my children? It seems an odd use of the word.
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12-23-2007 7:15 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by sinequanon
12-23-2007 2:23 PM

Is this a form of intelligent design
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No, it is not a form of intelligent design.
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(Nor, of course, is it a form of Intelligent Design.)
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... consistent with the Theory of Evolution?
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Yes, it's consistent with the theory of evolution.
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12-24-2007 8:32 AM 		Reply to: Message 8 by sinequanon
12-24-2007 7:57 AM

But intelligence was involved in the survival of the "red hair genetics" (forgive my terminology)?
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If someone has a good reason for wanting his offspring to have red hair, then marrying a red-haired woman would be an intelligent step to take towards that goal.
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12-24-2007 8:34 AM 		Reply to: Message 7 by sinequanon
12-24-2007 7:54 AM

Re: Misunderstanding the argument
The idea is to consider whether intelligence involves "the mind" and to what extent the mind is considered a physical thing.
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Then perhaps you should have said so in your OP.
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12-24-2007 9:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 13 by sinequanon
12-24-2007 8:46 AM

Just to clarify. The thread is asking if intelligence is involved in evolution through the process of selection.
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Again, that is not what you asked in your OP, but the answer to this question is "yes".
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It's called "artifical selection".
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