[Mormons and Evolution] 1/27/2006 06:02:01 AM
Your last line is a nice retort to Aaron Cox's "Get of the Speculation Train"!
Did you really go back and read the original Paley? If so, that's pretty cool.
Some combination of points 7, 8, and 9 are quite compelling. We can definitely tell the difference between three major kinds of things, both in their instrinsic properties and how they come into being: inorganic natural things, organic natural things, and man-made artificial things.
I think it's interesting that traditional Mormonism took seriously the "organic natural things" category that Paley left out, in its insistence on an eternal regression of procreation of various kinds of plants and animals. When it comes to organisms, the argument from design doesn't really have a natural place in Mormonism.
Posted by Christian Y. Cardall
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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 1/27/2006 06:02:01 AM
Did you really go back and read the original Paley? If so, that's pretty cool.
Some combination of points 7, 8, and 9 are quite compelling. We can definitely tell the difference between three major kinds of things, both in their instrinsic properties and how they come into being: inorganic natural things, organic natural things, and man-made artificial things.
I think it's interesting that traditional Mormonism took seriously the "organic natural things" category that Paley left out, in its insistence on an eternal regression of procreation of various kinds of plants and animals. When it comes to organisms, the argument from design doesn't really have a natural place in Mormonism.
Posted by Christian Y. Cardall
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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 1/27/2006 06:02:01 AM
posted by Christian Y. Cardall at 8:50 AM
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