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On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:10:41 -0400, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Ron Dean
<
rondean-noreply@gmail.com>:
>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.
>
So...
"If it serves a specific purpose or function, then it`s
designed, regardless of how the design came about."
...and:
"A river just serves such a purpose, but I would never
consider a river designed for that specific purpose."
Seems a bit of a word game. Is *anything* which serves *any*
purpose designed, as your first statement says? Please
elucidate.
>
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the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
`Eureka!` but `That`s funny...`"
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