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Bob Casanova wrote:
> 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.
>>
On second thoughts, there is a significant purpose for river systems, the
water cycle.

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