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that’s news to me and I’ve got a biology degree ! I’m inclined to think that’s just creationist blather
Are you not Episcopalian? Do Episcopalians not believe that God created the Universe regardless of the method used? If so, why do you use the term "creationist" in such a negative context given the fact you would be a "creationist"?
because most creationists I bump into use creation to mean fanciful pseudoscience nonsense and pseudoscience is actually dangerous .
But you are a creationist in a sense that you believe God is the creator of the universe?
Why create a false dichotomy? It is possible to believe that life evolved pretty much as the theory of evolution describes and is at once the vehicle of divine Telos. There is no need for God to tinker with it on a material plane.
Don't get your hopes up. The "Third Way" does not represent a departure from methodological naturalism nor open a window for creationist pseudoscience.
Practically all theists do, so using the term in that way conveys no particular information. As a practical matter, "creationist" is generally reserved as a descriptor for those theists who are at odds with science over our origins.
So it's a gear. So what? Where is the evidence of intentional manufacture which would allow me to conclude that it was the result of intentional processes rather than natural processes?
In that case, you need to start being honest with us--and with yourself--about what you are trying to accomplish. It is possible that nature was indeed designed and that the theory of evolution is a correct explanation for the diversity of life as we observe it. That is what most theists believe in any case. It is also possible that the theory of evolution is not a correct explanation and that nature is not designed either, but that some new theory of evolution is required.
I see a possibility of design in the way the surfaces are finished and how the splines are arranged, which are not usually characteristic in natural objects, but I would have to examine them more closely to make sure. Just be cause they are shaped like gears manufactured by humans is not, by itself, evidence of design.
So it is my intention, my design, to get out of bed sometime this morning and do the dishes. Doe tha mean we I go into the kitchen the dishes will be done? Or will I not actually have to wash them?
