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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 10:03 am
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(January 4, 2016 at 8:22 am)pool Wrote: Okay, I get it now.
The problem with my usage of design is that it can be interpreted as however I like. Right? IMO..? No, the problem with your usage of design is that it means nothing.
Quote:Main points:
* Design implies intelligent action.
Sure. I'd hazard to say that design requires intelligent action, as design -is- an intelligent action.
Quote:* Resemblance of a design due to natural causes is not a design because of its fluctuating constraints.
So, a "design" arrived at by natural forces, say, evolutionary forces........ is not a design. Pretty much rules out being an "intelligent design", huh? As expected, you wasted our time.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 10:07 am
(January 4, 2016 at 10:01 am)pool Wrote: (January 4, 2016 at 9:57 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote: Nope.
How about this:
Wife : "I dreamt they were auctioning off dicks. The big ones went for ten dollars and the thick ones went for twenty dollars.
"Husband : "How about the ones like mine?
"Wife : "Those they gave away.
"Husband : "I had a dream too...I dreamt they were auctioning off cunts. The pretty ones went for a thousand dollars, and the little tight ones went for two thousand.
"Wife : "And how much for the ones like mine?
"Husband : "That's where they held the auction."
Meh, I mean, it's not terrible, but it is a tad boring and predictable, this is much better:
I bought myself a nice, new stick of deodorant today. The instructions read: "Remove the cap, unscrew and push up bottom" ... I can barely walk now, but whenever I fart the room smells peachy, just peachy.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 10:09 am
(January 4, 2016 at 10:07 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote: (January 4, 2016 at 10:01 am)pool Wrote: How about this:
Wife : "I dreamt they were auctioning off dicks. The big ones went for ten dollars and the thick ones went for twenty dollars.
"Husband : "How about the ones like mine?
"Wife : "Those they gave away.
"Husband : "I had a dream too...I dreamt they were auctioning off cunts. The pretty ones went for a thousand dollars, and the little tight ones went for two thousand.
"Wife : "And how much for the ones like mine?
"Husband : "That's where they held the auction."
Meh, I mean, it's not terrible, but it is a tad boring and predictable, this is much better:
I bought myself a nice, new stick of deodorant today. The instructions read: "Remove the cap, unscrew and push up bottom" ... I can barely walk now, but whenever I fart the room smells peachy, just peachy.
Not bad. 
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 10:10 am
(January 4, 2016 at 9:57 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote: (January 4, 2016 at 9:52 am)pool Wrote: How dare you. It's a damn good joke!
Nope.
It got a pretty decent reaction when I posted it about a year ago, though. Perhaps as Carson taught us, it's the way I tell 'em.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 10:11 am
(January 4, 2016 at 10:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: (January 4, 2016 at 8:22 am)pool Wrote: Okay, I get it now.
The problem with my usage of design is that it can be interpreted as however I like. Right? IMO..? No, the problem with your usage of design is that it means nothing.
Quote:Main points:
* Design implies intelligent action.
Sure. I'd hazard to say that design requires intelligent action, as design -is- an intelligent action.
Quote:* Resemblance of a design due to natural causes is not a design because of its fluctuating constraints.
So, a "design" arrived at by natural forces, say, evolutionary forces........is not a design. Pretty much rules out being an "intelligent design", huh? As expected, you wasted our time.
I'll get back to you. Gotta hit ze zym.
For now, I'll remind you that it is not in my intention to try and falsify The theory of evolution.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 10:13 am
The biggest step of a good joke is the delivery of the joke, even if the joke is your son..
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 10:59 am
Just for you:
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 1:43 pm
I just want clarify something Rhythm,
Are the objections you raised against my post the only objections you have against it or are there more?
P.S I agree humans weren't designed.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 1:52 pm
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 4, 2016 at 1:59 pm
(January 4, 2016 at 1:43 pm)pool Wrote: I just want clarify something Rhythm,
Are the objections you raised against my post the only objections you have against it or are there more?
P.S I agree humans weren't designed.
IOW you don't actually believe in ID. Why do you waste our time?
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