(Been away for a week)
I have spent much of the past several months reading and thinking about design and what it means to design something. Just been too busy to write about it.
Before I get more deeply into it later this week, I just have to share something that recently seeped into my brain.
I have been following the discussions about evolution vs. intelligent design, in part because I have long been interested in the nature and beginning of our universe, the mysteries of the sub-atomic world, quantum physics, and so on.
Initially the concept of intelligent design appealed to me because it satisfied both the scientific and spiritual sides of me. But the other day, it hit me: the term is a redundancy. If anything is designed, from the universe to a blogger's page to a newspaper, it is the result of an intelligence with a plan. Even bad design (and there's w-a-a-a-y too much of that around), is the result of an intelligence with a plan, a blueprint. Randomness can create, but it can't design.
So that's why I can't use the term intelligent design any more. The second word includes the first. The editor in me now cringes.
More design thoughts TK.
