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Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

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Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

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Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

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Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

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Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?

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Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

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If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

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The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

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As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

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Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 18th, 1960

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