The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer

[Ghetta Life]

Oh, but this is by no means specious, no matter what your theology.  This is 
VERY MUCH at the heart of Pynchon's explorations via fiction.  The matter is 
NOT decided.

The male preying mantis's (and maybe your) demise is required by this 
present design.  The question is not so much whether a designer, but of what 
nature...

Ghetta

>From: Rcfchess at aol.com
>
>Jeez, what a specious argument this is! I think Aquinas would've failed my 
>freshman college logic class, or at least have had to do his paper over 
>again..."best result," indeed! Ask a male praying mantis if that's the case 
>  before he gets eaten just 'cause he wants to get laid...
>R-)
>
>paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:
>
>"The  fifth way is taken from the governance of he world. We see that 
>things which lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, act for an end, and 
>this is evident from the acting always, or nearly always, in the same way, 
>so as to obtain the best result. Hence it is plain that they achieve this 
>end, not fortuitously, but designedly. Now  whatever lacks knowledge cannot 
>move toward an end, unless it be  directed by some being endowed with 
>knowledge and intelligence, as  the arrow is directed by the archer. 
>Therefore some intelligent  being exists by whom all natural things are 
>directed to their end:  and this being we call God. "

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