Posted on 10/28/2008 4:11:13 PM PDT by Soliton
A flaw in intelligent design is the question of who designed the designer, he said. He said the fossil record shows a period of billions of years before the evolution of humans.
"There's nothing creative in terms of a spark of creation or an overnight Genesis event," he said.
Jacoby said that like the nine months it takes for someone to be born, God works in sometimes lengthy scientific processes.
"What was God doing for 3.5 billion years?" he said. "God takes his sweet time."
Shermer said it was a "cosmic accident" that human life developed on the planet. Vestigial structures such as male nipples and the appendix show how humans developed over time, he said.
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The Enlightenment.
Ever hear of it?
It means we no longer have to kowtow to anyone's tribal idols and demons, and we can tell the shamans--all of them--to take a hike.
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