"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 :-)

-- TP

Whenever I hear anyone using the term "intelligent design" the first thing
that pops into my head is whose intelligent design. Well, obviously God's,
right? So what these people are saying is that even though we don't have any
proof, it just seem right that since the world seems so complicated it must
have been God who made it. Who else is powerful enough to have done it? They
can't think of any other explanation so it must have been God that did it.
It's sure is nice to have a catch all term like God to explain every
question there is no answer for. It must be very comforting to the simple
folk to have a neat explanation to life's mysteries. How sad for the rest of
us that have to rely on facts and reason to get by with.

Hawke