Indeed.
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> Yet intelligent design has nothing to do with the six days of creation and everything to do with hard evidence and logic.
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Yeah, and I'm the Pope.
I don't see any scientific evidence that would contradict the idea of a designer - assuming that that designer has been working for some 1 billion plus years, making lots of mistakes and false starts along the way.
I don't see any scientific evidence that would contradict the idea of a designer - assuming that that designer has been working for some 1 billion plus years, making lots of mistakes and false starts along the way.
Enterprise. Captain Kirk here. Ship's log.
"Location of crewmembers Spock and Kirk is Earth, 2004. I believe they called it the Democratic National Convention.
There appears to be no sign of intelligent design down here, Scotty. Beam us up. Over and out".
ID has "everything to do with hard evidence and logic"? Logic includes the fallacy of the excluded middle. Hard evidence means, well ..umm.., hard evidence - as in directly observable evidence. By example, hard evidence of murder is a body with a knife in its back, not a missing person and a trail of blood.
Why was this article published 9 days late?
"If every elementary particle in the observed universe (about 1080) were cranking out mutation events at the cosmic speed limit (about 1045 times per second) for a billion times the estimated age of the universe, they still could not produce the genes for a working flagellum."
Now that's an interesting statement.
The fact that most of the people promoting "intelligent design" seem to be hellfire-belching snakehandlers is just a statitical fluctuation.
I've heard it alleged that Evolution stands up to the test of being falsifiable while ID does not. Anything to that?
Has anybody heard if Kent Hovind has been indicted for tax fraud? Haven't seen a post on him for awhile.
ID is an argument for alien creation, that we were put here by extraterrestrials.
ID promoters don't tell you this, because 'God' then becomes an alien race.
"Mark Hartwig has a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in statistics and research design."
...in other words, he knows JACK about evolutionary biology.
Exactly what is missing in the theory of evolution........hard evidence and LOGIC.
Those who do NOT believe (at least) in Intelligent Design, have a gaping hole in their brains where the logic is supposed to be.
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Back! Back to the philosophy department!
That nice, but then so what? Do you jump from this statistic to say "aha, there must be a God who designed this and THAT'S why it works so" or do you say, "yes, we don't understand all of the answers yet and thus we must think and study harder to try to understand how such a thing could've occured." ID is an intellectual dead-end. It's basically saying "this is TOO HARD. I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT. I know, I'll say God did it all and then I don't have to think anymore."
FWIW I'm a theist (Catholic), but ID is nothing new. Cultures have preached ID from the dawn of time. Can't figure out why the stars and planets move the way they do? Hey, it's ID! Those stars and planets are really Gods and they move hither and yon and they wish. Of course, if you want to ditch ID and figure it out (y'know do the HARD work) well maybe you'll discover the theory of gravity.
Keep up the good work, sir :-)