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Intelligent Design or unthinking blasphemy?

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Phat
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08-18-2006 3:51 AM 		Reply to: Message 76 by ringo
08-17-2006 7:05 PM

Re: Omniscience and knowability
Ringo writes:
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You admit that you don't know - and can't know - what "Intelligent Design" would be like. You admit that you don't know - and can't know - what the "Designer's" intentions would be. Therefore you don't know - and can't know - whether or not those intentions were achieved.
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I would prefer to believe that we don't currently (and collectively) know---the characteristics of the Designer yet we can possibly and/or potentially know a Creator/Designer and may do so---some day!
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In other words, I believe that we may not yet know and shall some day know the intentions of the Designer (God.)
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08-18-2006 10:48 AM 		Reply to: Message 85 by mitchellmckain
08-18-2006 4:18 AM

Re: response to nwr's and nemesis' discussion on God's omniscience
He gives the same privacy to everyone.
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He gives us the privacy of our future actions.
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He doesn't peek at what we are going to do. Of course, as I said before, sin destroys free will and so there are some people who are so utterly predictable, that He would not need to peek anyway.
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We could start a new topic on this!
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