Is the Designer Still Designing?

Interesting that the software designer is content to remove existing bugs while his counterpart, the Intelligent Designer, delights in putting new ones in.

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Does that follow? We are using our concept of "intelligence", after all. If we can "see" the telltale signs of Design, shouldn't we be able to "predict" the Designer's thought processes to some degree too? Aren't both inextricably woven into our thought processes?

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With some degree of accuracy, yes. You can say that he is more likely to use this material than that one. You can say that he is more likely to do this than that in a lot of areas, based on his past performance.After all, one of the tenets of Intelligent Designism is that "the designer would use the same bone structure on a bat's wing and a chimp's hand and a dolphin's flipper". In that sense, he's very predictable.So, if he's been a hands-on workaholic designer in the past, it's reasonable to predict that he wouldn't retire suddenly.

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