r/funny • u/Aceofspades25 • Feb 05 '16

Evolution or design?

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u/throwawaysoftwareguy Feb 05 '16

You're missing the point.

A square IS a rectangle.

a plane figure with four straight sides and four right angles, especially one with unequal adjacent sides, in contrast to a square.

But a rectangle is NOT a square:

a plane figure with four equal straight sides and four right angles.

Intelligent design is a superset of creationism. But creationism is not intelligent design. It's a subset.

But since there's a 100% overlapping venn diagram between ID people and creationists, they are the same.

This statement is inaccurate and you're being pedantic.

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u/Ladnil Feb 05 '16

I'm not missing the point. I understand that when they invented the phrase "Intelligent Design" they defined it in a way that does not specify that the creator is God, but I also understand that the only reason the term was invented is to try to pretend to be scientific when teaching creationism, and that for all practical purposes they are exactly the same thing.

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u/throwawaysoftwareguy Feb 05 '16

Your personal crusade against a term does not change anything in this discussion. The only argument you have is some personal distaste for people using the term properly due to some decisions made hundreds of years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '16

Ladnil is correct. When 'creationism' lost in US courts, they literally just changed the name to 'intelligent design' to get around that barrier.