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Intelligent Design in the science classroom campbell@kontiki.com Dec 12, 2002

What I do not understand is that the only things that we know that are "intelligently designed" are things made by humans. These objects have the property of reduced complexity with respect to their component parts in their natural state. For example, refined metals are far simpler in composition and density than the same material found in nature.

Natural things are far more complex, if not infinitely so, than "designed" objects, yet IDers claim that complex objects are more likely to have been designed.

Just don't quite understand the argument, it seems to be contradictory on its face.

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Intelligent Design in the science classroom Perakh, Mark Dec 12, 2002

Hi, Chris: Thanks for your letter. It looks like you share the view expressed in my article (at least in a broad sense) wherein I suggested that it is simplicity rather than complexity that points to design (e.g. my example with pebbles). Logic is generally not ID advocates' forte. Cheers, Mark Perakh