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Author Topic:   10 Categories of Evidence For ID
clpMINI
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Message 92 of 147 (207726)
05-13-2005 10:49 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Jerry Don Bauer
05-11-2005 6:20 AM


Category 1
Hello Jerry,
You wrote:
1) Function found in nature. Function is an attribute assigned by intelligence to cause something to cause 'something else' to do something. I design a hammer and cause it to do something else: drive a nail. My body causes my brain to function and the brain then causes me to think (sometimes). My car is a designed mechanism that allows me to drive it to get something else from point A to point B (could be my body, mail or groceries).
In fact, just looking up the word at dictionary.com and considering the first two definitions we can see the intelligence inherent in the word function: 1) The action for which a person or thing is particularly fitted or employed. 2) Assigned duty or activity.
FACT: We see much function in nature. This is evidence that intelligence operated to design and assign function in order that in each case, one something (often quite different) causes something else.
From Wikipedia:
Teleology is the position that there is design, purpose, directive principle, or finality in the works and processes of nature, and the philosophical study of that purpose.
Seem similar? Is ID just a re-hashed version of the teleological argument? If so, it would be purely a subjective excercise of assigning percieved purposes (functions).
clpMINI

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