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On 9/28/23 1:16 PM, Ron Dean wrote:

> If it serves a specific purpose or function, then it`s designed, 
> regardless of how the design came about.

That sentence is not true, as least not without doing extreme violence 
to the word "designed."

Consider a river which has shallow parts and deeper parts.  The shallow 
parts serve the specific purpose of allowing people to ford the river 
there; the deeper parts serve the specific purpose of allowing boating 
for transport and recreation.  You would say, according to the quote 
above, that all the various parts of the river were designed.  In fact, 
what was designed were the uses people found for the parts as they 
happened to occur.

-- 
Mark Isaak
"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between `That
doesn`t make sense` and `I don`t understand.`" - Mary Doria Russell

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