Bad choice of terminology (Evolution)

by Frank Paris @, Saturday, October 24, 2009, 20:57 (5318 days ago)

In the English language, the phrase, "Intelligent Design," is not a generic, descriptive phrase, but a specific name of a thoroughly discredited side show within the Creationist movement. You should not be using this term to describe Darwin's thoughts on origins. The term, "intelligent design" was never used by Darwin and was only invented quite recently to wrap up in misleading terminology an old argument for the existence of the traditional Christian God. You have to be very careful about using the term, design, at all when describing the mechanisms of evolution, and process thought can entirely dispense with the word.

Bad choice of terminology

by xeno6696 @, Sonoran Desert, Sunday, October 25, 2009, 00:57 (5318 days ago) @ Frank Paris

Welcome Frank,-For everyone else, this is an old sparring partner of mine--the person who reintroduced me to process thought. (Still the best theology to date, in my mind, though I'm still just enough of a materialist that I can't accept it.) -I invited him personally, so everyone give him a warm welcome before we get to the fun business at hand!---Matt

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"

Bad choice of terminology

by BBella @, Sunday, October 25, 2009, 20:35 (5317 days ago) @ xeno6696

Welcome Frank,
> 
> For everyone else, this is an old sparring partner of mine--the person who reintroduced me to process thought. (Still the best theology to date, in my mind, though I'm still just enough of a materialist that I can't accept it.) 
> 
> I invited him personally, so everyone give him a warm welcome before we get to the fun business at hand!
> 
> --Matt-
Welcome Frank!!!

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