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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: To sum up
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:06:06 -0700
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:29:58 -0700, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>:

>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.
>>
4 days. OK; got it; you were blowing smoke. Thanks for
confirming.
>
-- 

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