it is absolutely extraordinary that the so-called intelligent-design objection to Darwinism did not collapse the moment it was first raised; it is even more remarkable that it was not orthodox religious people who took the lead in shooting it down.
But modular product design, object-oriented programming, and sophisticated global supply chains have largely rendered these objections obsolete.
Moreover, some natural theologians and proponents of 'intelligent design' will object to declaring God's agency untestable - an objection I will discuss later.
The outcome was deemed successful if a project design raised no objections or was successfully defended in court, whereas an unsuccessful project was one that raised objections leading to its design having to be reconsidered due to a court ruling for it to be implemented.
The museum had fought long and hard for public approval, and Mr. Piano had repeatedly revised the design to allay objections by neighborhood residents.
Paley goes on for two chapters discussing the watch, discussing the properties in it which evince design, destroying potential objections to concluding design in the watch, and discussing what can and cannot be concluded about the watch's designer.
The scales were as follows: Young Earth Creationist Beliefs, Embryo/Fetus Beliefs (from Miller et al. 2006), Intelligent Design Fallacies, Social Objections to Evolution, Genetic and Evolutionary Literacy, and Relevance of Evolution (for items and scale reliabilities, see Table 3).
If you've only heard about the Scopes Trial, court battles over Intelligent Design, or religious objections to stem cell research, this might seem implausible.
But, as Mother Jones' Sheppard writes, the day before the earthquake in Japan, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission extended the life a Vermont plant using this very design, over the objections of the state's legislature.
Study design issues and objections about the demonstration of equivalence were most likely to result in licensing failure.
There are always people who don't want development, who object to new designs; there were objections to the West Pier back in the 1860s.
