(December 26, 2015 at 4:00 am)Rhythm Wrote: You think that I designed the rules of horse? You're very generous, but alas, I did not. That basketball is a designed game, that the court is designed, that the ball is designed........that all of these things are, as we know them, designed..and yet none of it can amount to a validation of your definition for the word is -precisely why- it is insufficient, and indistinguishable from my having found a rock in a field somewhere. I did not and could not have designed any of it, though I'm clearly capable of imposing those rules on a system, and of availing myself of designed things in that imposition. This, again, is why an imposition doesn't imply what you think it does....even if you could show such an imposition, which you haven't.
What would your final statement even mean.....if basketball is a designed game in the same way that a rock is a designed object? Not really saying much of anything, in that case, eh?
Imposed rules literally means design.
A statue has a design, so does it have imposed rules, imposed rules such as nose,eyes,their length,breadth etc.
A glass has a design, its shape, volume of water it can hold, are all imposed constraints. Which imply a design.
