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Mark Isaak wrote:
> 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.
> 
A river just serves such a purpose, but I would never consider a river 
designed
for that specific purpose.

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