(December 7, 2012 at 11:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: Right, tweaked us, intelligently designed us.
Yeah, I understand what you mean but ID still has a specific definition. Perhaps a different term is in order. Actually, we already have one. It's called "deism" (with a lower case "d" as it is philosophy, not religion, btw).
Quote:That's true, evolution doesn't preclude a great many things, but the current theories we have, and the evidence available to us...doesn't -include- a god tweaking us at any point, ...Interesting. I'd not thought of it that way. I still think that since evolution is neutral on the whole God issue, one could go either way. Again, this is philosophy, not science here.
Look at it another way, isn't artificial selection still "evolution". We bred dogs from wolves. We breed horses. We've grown bananas differently than they are found in the wild. This is still "evolution" AFAIK (someone who's a Biologist, please correct me if I'm wrong but it's my understanding that artificial selection involves the same mechanic as natural selection, just over shorter time spans).
Quote:Why do you think that we were tweakedI thought I'd already answered that question. Instinct and so many things coming together in our evolution.
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