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To: Publius6961
I can't admire the intellectual horsepower of any self styled super-intellect who needs to use the word "dumb" to criticise a competing theory in the very first paragraph!

Neither can I. Sounds like schoolyard namecalling.

5 posted on 11/17/2005 11:37:58 AM PST by Sister_T (Kenneth Blackwell for Governor of Ohio!)
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To: Sister_T
...a competing theory

Name one.

10 posted on 11/17/2005 11:43:34 AM PST by Rudder
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I understand the desperation some people feel that they want to introduce ID into the curriculum. I read the whole article as best as I could understand it. It seems to be that ID is more fitting in philosophy than in science. Unfortunately they don't teach metaphysics in grade school or high school. Not that Darwinism is flawless---there is a lot to be desired in it's theory--but it is approached in a scientific (empirical) fashion despite the holes one can poke in it. Parents see their kids getting barraged by an atheist agenda and are fed up. They would really like what their kids are learning at home and in church to be comlimented by what they learn in school. Those of Evangelical persuasion know that "creationsim" per se is never going to happen---so they've come up with ID. Now the atheists want to make ID into some hideous monster--but I agree with the author of the post that is belongs in philosophy. All you ID supporters are getting your knickers in a knot because he used the word DUMB


32 posted on 11/17/2005 12:03:14 PM PST by brooklyn dave (Allah is a Moon god)
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