intelligent design in Nature

[John Grehan]

No sloppy excuses for sloppy semantics please. Purpose is a standard
language permeating modern biology and it is the same language of
intelligent design. Purpose should have no place in evolutionary
biology, yet it does. If it's just 'sloppy' semantics it would seem
there are an awful lot of sloppy scientists being published by a whole
lot of sloppy prestigious journals. Who is to say that they are not all
really closet intelligent designers? 

John Grehan

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> Sloppy semantics does not make for intellectual disingenuity.
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> Aloha,
> Rich
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> > Subject: intelligent design in Nature
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> > Intelligent design theory is alive and well as part of modern
biology
> > according to the article "DNA twists and flips" (Nature 437 p. 1097)
> > where it is said that "DNA can shape itself into many forms to
achieve
> > its purposes in life". With intelligent design apparently already
> > accepted in Nature it makes one wonder what all the fuss is about.
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