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On 13 Oct 2005 at 23:59, Paula Nixon wrote: > > Dear Phil, > Intelligent design is the theory that the complex life on earth > couldn't just have happened by random chance. It had to have a > designer controlling things. You detect it in the natural world when > you see the tremendous complexities that require each detail to make > the other details work, and without any one of them it wouldn't work. > That includes most everything alive when you really look into it. I > can't detect it's absence. Everything needs it, from the exact > placement of the earth from the sun to the complexity of the simplest > cell, DNA, to the right amount of oxygen, lack of poisonous > gases,water, everything. It couldn't just happen no matter how long > you let itperk in the soup. You have to have oxygen to have life, you > can't have oxygen for life to start. This doesn't have anything to do > with PD. This got startedbecauseI was complainingabout the politics > among the scientists and the treatment of PD. Paula On the contrary. If you believe that everything is designed, then why wouldn't you believe that PD is part of the design? Why is complexity a sign of design? A jungle is much more complex than a garden, yet it is the garden that was designed. Phil Tompkins > Phil Tompkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Paula, > > What is intelligent design? How does one detect the presence of > intelligent design in the natural world? How does one detect its > absence? What does ID have to do with Parkinson's disease? > > Phil Tompkins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message > put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn