The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer - any challenges?

[jporter]

On Sep 29, 2005, at 5:15 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> And here, for anyone reading this far, is the feebleness of your 
> argument.  The creation of life might be, in the limited and perverse 
> sense your argumentt requires, a cultral artifact.  It would also be a 
> triumph of scientic method and, for those for whom it matterd, a final 
> banishing of the primitive thinking reilgion endorses.
>

The scientific method is a perfect example of a cultural phenomenon
Therefore, any scientific creation of life would be a triumph, or 
travesty,
of culture, depending on the outcome. If, like some other scientific
"triumphs", it led to egregious suffering, then the primitive thinking 
of
religion might seem less "banished", especially with respect to its well
known warnings regarding knowledge, and the arrogance it engenders.

But more than that, it would prove only that life was capable of being
created by intelligent design, and nothing whatsoever about the
possibility of life arising spontaneously, randomly, as it were, by the
chance interaction of inanimate building blocks.

jody