Designed Virus

Whether or not the Christian God based on Biblical literalism could qualify as the intelligent designer of ID might make an interesting topic, but it isn't the theme here.ID is the idea that there is evidence out there that demonstrates life could only have changed under the guidance of an intelligent designer at some point. The OP shows a wonderfully clever design use for virii, and seems to be asking something along the lines of 'Why did the designer not think of doing this, why are all virii seemingly harmful/designed badly?'The YEC position for any evidence of good design is 'God did it' and evidence of bad design is 'The Fall'. This is not a position that ID can take since it makes pains to seperate itself from one religion or the other (otherwise it can't get taught in schools!).So may I ask that both Faith and yourself desist in discussing the YEC view in an ID thread? Thanks.

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Apologies in advance if YECers (or indeed RAZD) think I am over simplifying or misrepresenting their position.This message has been edited by AdminModulous, Sat, 08-April-2006 09:14 PM

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A dilemma for sure!It might be the case that no IDer steps up to the plate on this one. Currently we don't seem to have many IDers regularly participating. It might be the case that this thread won't get much attention to start with, but an IDer might be referred here to discuss it later on. A good example of this phenomenon is this thread - it didn't spark much in the way of debate, but I referenced it recently when someone brought up the argument where it was off topic to discuss it.It's no good just filling the thread up to 300 posts for the sake of arguing though. If you want to tackle YECers, there are plenty of threads to do that very thing! It would be wonderful if one day the guns fall silent and there is no more debate, so one might argue that the more threads go unresponded to the better...Incidenally, the apology isn't needed, but it is appreciated. Topics tend to drift all the time, us Admins just try to catch them before the drift becomes terminal. I've had my fair share of warnings about it

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