[Avodah] intelligent design

[Arie Folger]

R'nTK  is struggling with a report by RET that he participated in a
conference where many issues of Torah and science were discussed and
intelligent design was rejected.

My US$0.02: What people usually think of when debating intelligent
design is not whether or not creation was done by G"d, but rather,
whether there is incontrovertible scientific evidence that the world
could not have developed to the present stage barring the invisible
guiding hand of the Designer / Intelligence. Basically, these are
people who argue that organisms dsplay irreducible complexity, etc.
That is a branch of science that is controversial, and there is less
evidence for that then some want to believe. I understood that it is
that train of thought the conference speakers rejected.

IOW, rejecting the science of ID does not mean one rejects what I
would call the phliosphy of ID, or even better, it does not mean that
one rejects the existence of the Designer.

... apples and oranges.
-- 
Arie Folger,
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