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To emotionally load their case, atheists routinely blend I.D. with Creationism.

If all scientists and educated faithful can come to an understanding that each deserve to believe what they individually want to believe, rejecting nothing, -- including either’s concepts of possibility or probability; and in that process reject dogma,-- the vitriol will cease and a conversation can commence.

Well sir. Unless you can prove to me that --- in this case --- one side is right and the other is wrong; I am entitled to my belief, and you to yours. Neither of us should demand the other relent other than to not interfere with the other's right to those beliefs,---- giant purple anteaters included. They are, after all, the most benign and useful of the insectivores.

Purpose in evolution --- like all such endeavors of nature and man --- is cluttered with vestigial components. "Shavings from the work bench" as it were — which some tails, appendices etc. most likely are. Cluttering of the evolutionary pathway are like breadcrumbs and (pardon my leap) — sort of messages from God. But they are also structures which can be accessed again in the future should they be needed. Perhaps we should be more reverent to vestigia. They likely have provided us and all animalia with latitude for survival through the eons. JCH

to say Humans build tools for certain purposes is an assumption.

but an IDist could use the same logical form: