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To: anguish

Every monotheist religion has creation story. I see a bit of semantic word play here. There is a wide difference between Genesis based "creationism" and intelligent design.


517 posted on 01/22/2005 11:49:25 PM PST by Texasforever (It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your butt out all day long.)
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To: Texasforever
There is a wide difference between Genesis based "creationism" and intelligent design.
But your example was with a creationist, no? But in general intelligent design is the same as theistic creationism - it doesn't mention a 'God' explicitly, but taken to it's logical conclusion it requires one. Even if we were designed by aliens, they in turn had to come from somewhere etc.
520 posted on 01/22/2005 11:58:02 PM PST by anguish (while science catches up.... mysticism!)
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There is a wide difference between Genesis based "creationism" and intelligent design.

So it is claimed.

That is belied by the statement of strategy published on the Discovery Institute web site, and since removed, that described what it called the "wedge" strategy. This wedge strategy was to get science to accept ID in order to make people comfortable with the idea that some kind of supernatural was an established scientific fact. Then they would spring Christianty out of that base (or whatever the Moonies are, the DI was founded by a moonie)

The texas ruling on this same sticker made the point that they could have written a sticker that said that all scientific processes were only "theories". But by singling out Evolution, it labeled itself as religious, because religious entities are famous for their opposition to Evolution.

523 posted on 01/23/2005 12:03:10 AM PST by narby ( A truly Intelligent Designer, would have designed Evolution)
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