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We are both willing to listen to you but you got to offer us some evidence other than what you have made up in your own mind. Your opinion may convince you but it won't convince most others.....you got to have something of substance...
You would hold others to a standard that you yourself have not met?
 
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So then you know that everything is designed, you just won't admit it. Gotcha.
At this point I am not sure what you mean by "designed" in the manner you are using it, in the absence of criteria, or negative examples. The word has lost any meaning.
 
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You have now trivialized "design" into being meaningless.

Why does water flow downhill? Design. Why do trees fall down when you cut their trunk? Design. Why do satellites stay in orbit? Design. It doesn't tell us anything about why these things happen other than making another unfalsifiable claim.
If you want to call gravity "trivialized" you go right ahead.......
 
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You would hold others to a standard that you yourself have not met?
Just because you don't believe it and deny it does not mean it has not been met. Willful ignorance is difficult to overcome but we will continue to enlighten you......
 
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At this point I am not sure what you mean by "designed" in the manner you are using it, in the absence of criteria, or negative examples. The word has lost any meaning.
At this point, I am not sure you know what anything means regardless of criteria or examples. The fact you don't understand the word "designed" does not detract from its meaning.
 
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Just because you don't believe it and deny
I do not deny it, I am simply unconvinced.
it does not mean it has not been met. Willful ignorance is difficult to overcome but we will continue to enlighten you......
If it has been met, can you show where? No?
 
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At this point, I am not sure you know what anything means regardless of criteria or examples.
Step up to the plate with some criteria, and examples both positive and negative, and I will let you know.
The fact you don't understand the word "designed" does not detract from its meaning.
How is that list of testable criteria coming along? Do you have anything yet? No?
 
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And you have not presented a case for your "four designers" unless you are willing to concede that you simply made it up in your mind.....
I presented as much a case as you did. Why was your case sufficient, but mine wasn't? Is there one standard for you and another for me?
 
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Just because you don't believe it and deny it does not mean it has not been met. Willful ignorance is difficult to overcome but we will continue to enlighten you......
LOL. You haven't presented a case at all. You've simply insisted that the answer is design, and you've assumed that there can be only one designer.
 
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Whatever you believe Darwin's theory to be, I reject it, while accepting some form of evolution as being valid. I don't know that we have found the right formulae, yet.
Well then, just what is your take on evolution? Also, your initial sentence is irrational. Yu don't know what I believe about Darwin, so you really don't know if you would agree or not.
 
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At this point, I am not sure you know what anything means regardless of criteria or examples. The fact you don't understand the word "designed" does not detract from its meaning.
That's the thing, civil, we do understand it, which is why we are asking you to show us how you reasoned to your conclusions regarding gravity being designed, for example.
 
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