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Posted on 12/03/2005 5:28:45 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
TO read the headlines, intelligent design as a challenge to evolution seems to be building momentum.
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Behind the headlines, however, intelligent design as a field of inquiry is failing to gain the traction its supporters had hoped for. It has gained little support among the academics who should have been its natural allies. And if the intelligent design proponents lose the case in Dover, there could be serious consequences for the movement's credibility.
On college campuses, the movement's theorists are academic pariahs, publicly denounced by their own colleagues. Design proponents have published few papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Wow. Something else to agree with you on; especially the global warming issue. I don't know many meteorologists that agree with it and I've studied it in my met classes and talked to a few meteorologists at the NWS. It's a real hot button for them.
I think the "better living through chemistry" era did some damage to the credibility of science also and medicine is partly to blame for it. In the mind of the public, there is not much difference between the two. Many pronouncements were made as fact and later found to be wrong. I think this has cut into the general credibility and trust that science once had with the public.
I'm not sure what the answer is for scientists to gain back that trust; it's probably something that the scientists have to figure out themselves. But it is going to be a tough battle because there is not much way of controlling what special interest groups do with the information published by the scientific community.
I have threatened whom? When? Where? How? Talk about an asinine comeback!
Placemarker.
Wolf
Cougars are just big pussy cats. Been stalked by them couple of times (but they can raise the hair on the back of your neck real quick). In the long run, no big deal. They only eat the lame and weak, and maybe the stray wolf--you must have been lucky.
Now, in the old days, around here, Pacifica too, there were Grizzlies. That was a beast to watch out for.
...we'll see what happens when you try that.
A very cogent argument. Your Nobel Prize awaits.
You're so right. Why, I remember when I was a kid and got out the microscope to see snowflakes. Intelligently designed, every one of them. [/sarc]
On college campuses, the War on Terror is failing, Iraq is hopeless, socialism rules the day, and France is the greatest nation on earth.
It's undoubtably an honor to be 'denounced' by these brainless idiots, and if your screen name is accurate, I'm sure you've helped quite a bit into cranking out quite a few of these morons.
I'm on pins and needles waiting for the Nobel prize given for the first scientific instrument measuring the presence of God. That's certainly the "holy grail", if anything is. [/sarc]
The best thing is to engage them right now, because once they have to hesitate then it seems they are broken out of their predator mode.
Wolf
Yup. See, there is a lot we can agree on.
ps. When in lion country, don't bend down to tie your shoes with nobody to guard your back. That's how most folks around here end up kitty chow.
...some guy comes up with a theory that we evolved from some amoebic slime which has never been tested, of course. It's a theory and nothing more.
Politics is one thing, science is another. Learn to tell the difference.
Gravity is a "theory" too. So is "Music theory", that my daughter took in college.
Are you going to dispute that either gravity or music exists?
There is no difference today, and that is precisely the point. It's a crypto-science run by a bunch of leftwing crackpots who mold science to fit their own beliefs. Like I said, foolishness.
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