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To: Buggman
You are either too uninformed to have this conversation with, or are being deceitful. What you are describing is Genesis-based Creationism, not ID.

Well, there it is.

ID has nothing to do with Genesis-based Creationism.

Why We Care About Darwin Wars:

Darwinists say the evolutionary mechanism must be purely material. ID theorists find evidence in nature of an intelligent purpose shaping life's history. Which view we convey to our children may affect their adult lives.

The scientific impact: Consider our country's role as the leading exporter of scientific ideas. Modern science from its start has been fueled by religious wonder. In his new book, "The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success," sociologist Rodney Stark points out that real science arose only once. That was in Europe at the hands of devoutly Christian scholars: "medieval scholastics, sustained by that uniquely Christian 12th-century invention, the university."

Unlike the ancient Greeks who believed the universe had no beginning and thus no designer, Christians and Jews read the opening chapters of Genesis as an affirmation that nature is God's handiwork. To understand Him, it helps to understand His creation. Writes Stark, "Newton, Kepler and Galileo regarded the creation itself as a book that was to be read and comprehended."

In erasing God's role from the history of biological existence, Darwinism erases a primary motivation to pursue scientific discovery.


695 posted on 01/27/2006 2:35:29 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (Karen Ryan reporting...)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker; Dimensio; Luis Gonzalez; highball

Well, it's been fun, but Shabbat is upon us, and I'm off for more relaxing activity. Since most of you are just repeating objections that I already answered earlier in the thread (many in my first post), I see no reason to go on repeating myself. You can have the last word on this thread. Have a pleasant evening.


702 posted on 01/27/2006 3:11:39 PM PST by Buggman (L'chaim b'Yeshua HaMashiach!)
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