"tonyp" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote

... As for Intelligent Design, let them try to
explain the lamprey eel or neocons.


"Intelligent design" is, at best, a metaphor -- like Adam Smith's
"invisible
hand". The difference is that Adam Smith was not such an idiot as to
confuse metaphor with explanation. Otherwise, "Wealth of Nations" would
have been a much shorter book :-)

Well, I think the ID folks really mean it--literally, rather than
metaphorically.

As for Smith, I think he meant it, too, except, of course, that the hand
itself was a metaphor.

Smith didn't anticipate oligopoly or the cocaine trade. Besides, in his
other life, he worked as a mercantilist advisor to the Crown. He had his
bases covered, obviously taking Pascal's Wager to heart. g

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Ed Huntress