How do we distinguish mechanistic design from non-mechanistic (creative) design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birth Pangs] Reference

Personally, I can't accept a non-mechanistic model because I can't understand it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference

But biological complexity isn't evidence of any "non-mechanistic sort of reality".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny and a Book] Reference

To state that the game development community is uninterested in non-mechanistic forms of creativity, or somehow incapable of thinking about them, seems absurd to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Studies at GDC, Part 2] Reference

I certainly don't rule out non-mechanistic hypotheses for biogenesis or the origin of the universe – the evidence is simply too weak to be able to rule out any explanation definitively.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Telic View of the Universe] Reference

Morowitz is not an IDist, but physicists are coming to terms with a non-mechanistic, non-reductionistic view that MIND is as primitive to physical systems as atoms or any subatomic particle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memory Hole] Reference

Consciousness, while undeniable as a personal experience, provides no demonstration of non-mechanistic or, top-down causation, differing in kind from the external universe, as Descartes argued and as many still believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vacuity of Intelligent Design: Intelligent Design and Alchemy - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Maybe a world with non-mechanistic, chaotic aspects that we are increasingly coming to accept needs a medium that gives us 24-hour access to information and resources that let us check our facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaliceblog] Reference

The elimination of such non-mechanistic propositions of the faith has been visibly going on, but it has not worked out on any uniform plan, nor has it overtaken any large or compact body of people consistently or abruptly, being of the nature of obsolescence rather than of set repudiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference

Superstitions are liable to lapse by neglect or disuse in such a community; that is to say propositions of a non-mechanistic complexion are liable to insensible disestablishment in such a case; "superstition" in these premises coming to signify whatever is not of this mechanistic, or "materialistic" character.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference

There is no "how" to a non-mechanistic model.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference