I’d like you to understand the difference between mechanism and agency. If you do, you’ll have an intellectual advantage over a very large number of prominent scholars involved in advancing the ideology of atheistic naturalism.
See post # 561.
I wouldn’t be surprised if George Will has not fully, if at all, contemplated the distinction between mechanism and agency and how it relates to the context of the debate on divine existence.
I say this to call attention to the irony that the atheist position has always tended to label itself as the more intellectual side of the debate—meanwhile atheism looks more and more to be the position reached via a lower caliber of thinking.
Sounds like a creationist prop, a lot like "kind". Never heard it in scientific nomenclature.