(2024-08-31, 12:33 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: ID does recognize RM+NS as a definite agent in evolution, but only working to the extent of "micro-evolution" or a sort of fine tuning of adaptations once the heavy design work of new innovative organ systems and body plans has been accomplished. This is not macroevolution which is the core of evolution, consisting of major innovations including irreducibly complex biological systems. Macroevolution requires an intelligent designer.
So how do irreducibly complex organ systems appear in the evolutionary process?
If there are interventions that result in a sudden appearance of said organ systems, why don't we see something like this now? Shouldn't there be X-men of sorts born to normal humans? Or did the designers leave us to our own devices after intervening here and there across the span of millennia?
I can better understand the Deist position of someone who thinks the Cosmic Fine Tuning was the first and last act of intervention, but it's more difficult to see why Designers associated with ID - whether they are the same as the Cosmic Fine Tuners or not - periodically intervened in the past but not in the present.
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