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There have been a lot of scientific responses to Intelligent Design. But it is important to articulate theological objections as well. The quote above is based on a comment I made here on this blog<\/a>. The point is a simple one: Either God can create a universe that can organize itself, in which case the claim of ID fails; or God cannot create such a universe, in which case the proponent of ID ought to be asked to explain why they view God as limited in this way.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another version I made, in case someone prefers a different background:<\/p>\n

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There have been a lot of scientific responses to Intelligent Design. But it is important to articulate theological objections as well. The quote above is based on a comment I made here on this blog. The point is a simple one: Either God can create a universe that can organize itself, in which case the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":20989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[2085,2269,2277,4005,5273],"class_list":["post-20988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligent-design-pseudoscience","tag-complexity","tag-creation","tag-creator","tag-god","tag-intelligent-design"],"yoast_head":"\nResponding to Intelligent Design<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There have been a lot of scientific responses to Intelligent Design. 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