Subject: Re: JH: The Design Argument Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:02:59 -0700 From: "Brian Holtz" To: "Brian Holtz" "Paul Filseth" wrote : > > For our purposes, I mean a) egregiously violative of the regularities > > that are usually observed in the material world, while also b) > > consistent with the expressed will of some agency. > > animals with high mass/area ratios cannot fly. This regularity is > egregiously violated in a way consistent with the expressed will > of an agency named "Orville and Wilbur Wright" As noted in my posting yesterday "Re: definitions of god, atheism, etc": It should be somewhat obvious that I'm talking about regularities or patterns that are basic or irreducible in some sense, as opposed to the regularity that e.g. "West Wing" appears on Wednesday nights. -- Brian.Holtz@sun.com Knowledge is dangerous. Take a risk: http://humanknowledge.net