Evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, May 22, 2009, 14:28 (5662 days ago) @ David Turell

I don't really understand why the IDers prefer Shapiro's litle molecules approach to the origin of life to the RNA-world long molecule theory. Whichever turns out eventually to be true, they can still claim that it was all designed.
 
> As I have previously noted, Michael Behe accepts evolution. - Here is a direct quote from Behe: "But the assumption that design unavoidably requires "interference" rests mostly on a lack of imagination. There's no reason that the extended fine-tuning view I am presenting here necessarily requires active meddling with nature anymore than the fine tuning of theistic evolution does. One can think the universe is finely tuned to any degree and still conceive that "the universe [originated] by a single creative act" and underwent "its natural development by laws implanted in it". One simply has to envision that the agent who caused the universe was able to specify from the start not only laws, but much more." (p. 231) Not all IDer's follow a party line. I feel pretty much as Behe does.