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Bad choice of terminology (reply)

BBella — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:35:57 +0000

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!!!

Bad choice of terminology (reply)

xeno6696 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:57:56 +0000

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

Bad choice of terminology

Frank Paris — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:57:29 +0000

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.