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Originally posted by: Freethinker
I'm WAY on the other side of the issue from IDer's. But what I find most interesting when they give examples of obvious "design", is they are actually describing SIMPLICITY, not COMPLEXITY.
e.g. on the local NPR station this AM an IDer was using Stonehenge as an example. What was being promoted was how obvious it is that it was an intentional intellegent effort. And from this they state complexity in design as a connection with organic life.
But Stonehenge is a ORGANIZED presentation of rocks. the otherwise highly complex random arrangement of material is organized into a much SIMPLER form. One with limited parameters. The complexity of randomness is removed by the intellectual effort. Not enhanced.
So they want to claim Complexity as the cornerstone to prove what is actually a SIMPLIFYING process of intellectual involvement.
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Very good point. A design is often aimed at a relatively narrow purpose. Design is reduction of randomness, that is, the complexity is reduced. I didn't think of it that way.
