Okay. Enough goofing around. It's time to outline an open-ended method that can help people gauge the strength of a design inference. There are several clues that might lead one to suspect intelligent design as a causal player behind biotic reality, but how can we proceed beyond the level of suspicion?
Do we need independent evidence of the designers at work? Not really. First, what we need to do is
What the ……?! Hold on….
I'll have to get back to you.
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April 19th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
he he he
Comment by Dane Parker — April 19, 2006 @ 11:04 pm
April 19th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
You know, after reading this blog, it occured to me that I ought to have wondered at seeing a rabbit pop out in the middle of it, but at the time it all seemed quite natural.
Comment by Guts — April 19, 2006 @ 11:41 pm
April 20th, 2006 at 5:25 am
Who programmed/constructed/designed/created/made the red-eyed rabbit?
Perhaps there's an 'open-ended' method for 'discovering' that and also how intelligent that person is (or may be)?
Ahh/Ehh…Detective Gene at his best again! :->
G.A.
Comment by g arago — April 20, 2006 @ 5:25 am
April 20th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Another sighting.
Comment by chunkdz — April 20, 2006 @ 12:58 pm
April 20th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
ehhhhh…..what's up, Doc?
Comment by Bilbo — April 20, 2006 @ 4:07 pm
April 20th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Clever, but it would really be interesting to see the answer to this question. Is there a replicable methodology that would begin to raise design detection to more than a suspicion, or will the rabbit always come along just in time to keep ID advocates from getting to the next steps?
I remain curious about this.
Comment by jkrebs — April 20, 2006 @ 9:56 pm
April 20th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Mike Gene,
Odd. Did you just post that today (Thursday)? I came home today, and behold, there was a large rabbit crouched 10-12 feet from my driveway in the middle of my (small) yard. I'm not sure if it was stalking something, or just chewing some grass, but it didn't seem to notice me as I walked around behind it some 15 feet to dump some trash. It was a big rabbit, so I named him "Goliath".
Comment by Douglas — April 20, 2006 @ 11:57 pm
April 21st, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Hey Douglas,
Do you think that in some way that rabbit was intelligently specified to be there at that moment when you came home?
Is it really 'odd' rather than 'fate' or 'Providence' that it was there?
Was there some parallel in your response like Adam naming the animals?
These would all seem to qualify as 'intelligent design' - the scientific paradigm of a new(er) generation.
Arago
Comment by g arago — April 21, 2006 @ 1:31 pm
April 22nd, 2006 at 6:41 am
g. arago,
"Do you think that in some way that rabbit was intelligently specified to be there at that moment when you came home?"
Possibly. I imagine I'll have to ask Mike Gene.
"Is it really 'odd' rather than 'fate' or 'Providence' that it was there?"
Well, "fate" works in odd ways, you know.
"Was there some parallel in your response like Adam naming the animals?"
I'd never thought of that. If I break a rib any time soon, I'll know God's trying to tell me something.
"These would all seem to qualify as 'intelligent design' - the scientific paradigm of a new(er) generation."
You forgot "new and improved".
Comment by Douglas — April 22, 2006 @ 6:41 am