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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: To sum up
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:29:58 -0700
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:41:42 +1100, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com>:

>On 18/02/2025 8:55 pm, Martin Harran wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:37:06 +1100, MarkE <me22over7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 18/02/2025 8:15 pm, Martin Harran wrote:
>>>> The question I would like to see you address is how your Intelligent
>>>> Designer might have gone about this.
>>>>
>>>> The human brain indeed has unique characteristics in terms of its
>>>> ability and functions. Other species do not have those
>>>> characteristics, but they do have similar brain structures and, as
>>>> Ernest has pointed out in several examples, those brains can sometimes
>>>> be argued to be even more complex than the human one. So how do you
>>>> think your Intelligent Designer went about this? Did he play around
>>>> with various prototype brain designs on other species and then come up
>>>> with a particular design that he decided to give to humans alone?
>>>
>>> Why the hostile, mocking tone,
>> 
>> Not meant to be either hostile or mocking but I accept it may come
>> across that way due to my frustration with you continually refusing to
>> deal with issues raided by a fellow religious believer. [1]
>> 
>>> and straw man depiction of God?
>> 
>> It is you and your fellow IDers who have created a strawman by
>> pretending to talk about some anodyne designer when you really mean
>> God; and not just *any* God, the specific Christian God.
>
>I'm with many ID proponents who are openly Christians, but in the 
>context of debating the interpretation and implications of scientific 
>evidence, deliberately and correctly refer only to a non-specific 
>intelligent designer interacting with this material world from outside 
>of spacetime.
>
>> 
>> 
>> ===========================
>> 
>> [1] For example, still waiting for you to produce the evidence you
>> promised 10 days ago about ID gaining traction.
>> 
Same here.
>
>It'll come, I'm still doing midnighters. And distracting myself with 
>posts like these.
>
So, "The check is in the mail"?

Either you know of such evidence or you were blowing smoke.
If the former, a simple one-line cite to the evidence would
have taken less time than the two sentences above. But I
suspect it's actually the latter; simply the most recent in
a long line of such from various ID apologists.
>
-- 

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
 the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov