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"There's an even bigger problem with ID. If you say our planet is too complex to be the way it is without an intelligence guiding it, and then explain that complexity by postulating that there actually is an intelligence (plus, as they don't state, a physical presence to that intelligence to let it intervene and shape our world), you explicitly don't solve the very problem your hypothesis was supposed to solve. You've actually made it worse by orders of magnitude. Rather than explaining the complexity of our world, you've now taken that complexity, and added onto it an intelligence and physical presence of an order complex enough to have guided a world of our complexity. Where did this complex 'intelligence' come from? You can't say it just always was there, because if complexity of that order can just always have been there, then complexity of our puny order can just always have been there too. Bam, no more need for ID. So we're left with only one possibility (assuming you don't at that point reject ID): God evolved from something simple. And if God can do it, why not us simpler organisms?" - - oliver_otter, 2005-11-15

Got my nails done -- the three that have acrylic on them -- on my way out of Baltimore yesterday. Still a show left to perform tonight, and I've already played right through the acrylic on two of them and exposed the natural nail, and the third is looking iffy. Gonna need to go right back to the nail salon on Monday.

Guitar has held up so far. Knock wood.