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To: Always Right
And also teach that there is much we don't know and many scientist believe in intelligent design.

Not many scientists at all believe in Intelligent Design. I seriously doubt you can claim one tenth of one percent of the world's credentialled biologists.

And it's not as if offers any intellectual content. You can't learn anything by studying it. "It's too complicated. I'll never understand it. Therefore it can't have evolved." That's not going to teach you much.

74 posted on 08/03/2005 3:07:58 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
Not many scientists at all believe in Intelligent Design. I seriously doubt you can claim one tenth of one percent of the world's credentialled biologists.

I would bet large sums of money it is much higher than that. Very large sums of money.

And it's not as if offers any intellectual content. You can't learn anything by studying it. "It's too complicated. I'll never understand it. Therefore it can't have evolved." That's not going to teach you much.

That is a total misrepresentation of anything I have said. However there is a lot more we don't know about the origin of life than what we do know. Just because someone believes in ID doesn't mean they are going to stop searching, that is kind of a bigoted point of view. It is different viewpoints that advance science. The most important discovery could easily come from someone who is trying to disprove the idea the life started from thin air.

82 posted on 08/03/2005 3:34:53 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: VadeRetro

"And it's not as if offers any intellectual content. You can't learn anything by studying it. "It's too complicated. I'll never understand it. Therefore it can't have evolved." That's not going to teach you much."

That is not the ID argument. The ID argument is essentially that chaos doesn't order itself. If you find order that is not directly related to natural law and statistically impossible from chance, then it is a reasonable inference to say that an intelligence was involved in its order.

Let's look at DNA, specifically. DNA is a symbolic codal system. It has mechanisms for relaying messages which are transcribed, decoded, and then implemented by a reading machinery. Is there ANY OTHER EXAMPLE of a symbolic codal system that was not created by an intelligence? Can you think of even ONE?


109 posted on 08/03/2005 6:06:21 PM PDT by johnnyb_61820
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