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by David Turell , Sunday, March 15, 2015, 21:25 (3541 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Because of this I took a quick look at what you said about Creationism in your book The Atheist Delusion, and to my delight (I'd forgotten it) found the following:
> “I am not arguing, however, that God engineered all these intricate processes separately (Dawkins loves to equate design with biblical Creationism, so that he can ignore all other aspects of the argument.) My point is that living organisms have been provided with mechanisms that enable them to adapt and invent. It is the astonishing versatility of these mechanisms that makes chance so unlikely a provider.”
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> So you actually got there before me: the autonomous inventive mechanism (theistic version). Sounds good to me!-Remember I don't know how God guided evolution, and I've agreed an onboard IM may really exist in most species. Where you and I disagree is whether it is autonomous vs. semi-autonomous, and I favor semi, so God stays in control. He is not ful,ly in control with semi-autonomous