[Coleus]

Intelligent Design Verdict Will Have Wide Impact on Schools

Court Battle over Intelligent Design and Evolution

Evolution: Science or Atheism in Disguise?

[coconutt2000]

If there is no God, then nature does one hell of an imitation. ;-)

[Coleus]

Tiniest animals call darwin to question and give big boost to 'intelligent design'

[staytrue]

Oh no, not you coleus.

Do you know how cold water evaporates ? Almost all the molecules are too cold to evaporate, but they do bang into each other. A drop of water has about 10 to the 22nd power number of molecules. Once in a while, one molecule gets banged and banged and banged again just right so all the collisions add enough momentum that this one molecule is "hot" enough to "boil" away.

This is also the suspected mechanism for the martian atmosphere to have "boiled" away.


This is also the suspected mechanism for "skipping the missing link". That is 3 or 4 mutations occur simultaneously (a very rare occurance, but with millions of chances per year, it becomes possible or even likely).

Now ID can never be disproven. God did it, can explain everything very nicely, but "God did it" just is not science.

By the way, I enjoyed meeting you at the FR inauguaral Ball/dinner.

[staytrue]

I guess the last thing to think about is dinosaur bones.


We have a lot of evidence that dinosaur bones are from living creatures. What purpose did they serve in the ID scheme of things ? They are extinct and so apparently did not serve much of a purpose or they never existed and god for some reason put bones in the ground for us to find.


I know, I know. God knows more than I do and God works in mysterious ways and if he wants us to dig up bones of extinct creatures (or maybe they never lived at all and god just put things that look like bones in the ground), well that is just the way it is.

It is a tough sell for me.

[ccwoman]

God created the heavens and the earth...

I believe this as much as I believe my own name!! Nothing will change that!!
My very big husband becomes quite loud saying "I.D. has no scientific basis, not one shred" I just look at him and say, "I believe in my God and nothing you say will change that".
Nature itself is too beautiful to just be some cosmic accident. the human body is way too complex to have just been some atoms colliding.

[Right Wing Professor]

He is an expert on a special kind of bacteria called flagella.

Strong science, eh? Well, to start with, flagella aren't a kind of bacteria, they're an organelle bacteria possess. And Behe's not an expert in flagella; his area is the physical chemistry of DNA and DNA binding proteins. And Behe has admitted that parts of the flagellum seem to function as an entirely different entity - the TTSS, a bacterial defense mechanism.