Benjamin Cain
Jan 11, 2022

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I always appreciate the thoughtfulness of your comments and criticisms.

Just regarding the meaning of "creativity," the dictionary seems to agree that there can be no natural creativity. The word is defined as meaning: "to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes," or "to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention."

But that strikes me as an arbitrary division. Whatever word we want to use for the natural kind, there will be a conceptual overlap because both mindless and intelligently designed cases are the productions of order and complexity from disorder and simplicity. And nature would obviously be far more productive than intelligent designers.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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