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The Case Against Intelligent Design. The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name.
The New Republic ^ | 8/11/05 | Jerry Coyne

Posted on 08/15/2005 9:18:06 AM PDT by hc87

Exactly eighty years after the Scopes "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, history is about to repeat itself. In a courtroom in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in late September, scientists and creationists will square off about whether and how high school students in Dover, Pennsylvania will learn about biological evolution. One would have assumed that these battles were over, but that is to underestimate the fury (and the ingenuity) of creationists scorned.

The Scopes trial of our day--Kitzmiller, et al v. Dover Area School District et al--began innocuously...

(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anothercrevothread; creationism; crevolist; enoughalready; evolution; intelligentdesign; makeitstop; notagain
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To: js1138
"I notice you have nothing to say about the original subject regarding the Bible..."

I notice that your comprehension of what you notice has nothing to do with reality. LOL

381 posted on 08/16/2005 10:32:48 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law overarching rulers and ruled alike)
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To: Matchett-PI
I can only repeat myself

Obviously.

Sorry, Matchett, but I don't agree with your preferred Biblical "experts". Nor does that disagreement make me "emotionally immature".

382 posted on 08/16/2005 10:35:48 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: Matchett-PI

I notice you have nothing to say in response. Bibilical citations were requested and provided. The discussion did not directly include you, but you jumped in. Nothing wrong with that, if you have something to contribute.

You still haven't said anything relevant to the discussion,


383 posted on 08/16/2005 10:36:27 AM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: Matchett-PI
Trying to change the subject again, are ya?

Only trying to stick with your personal style.

You're a known liar. Everything you say can be disregarded because you've established quite clearly that you're willing to fabricate any claims you want to support your position.
384 posted on 08/16/2005 10:41:11 AM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: bobdsmith
"I didn't say DNA had nothing to do with evolution, I said spontaneous formation of proteins had nothing to do with evolution."

They cherry pick which portion of a post to understand and which to misinterpret.

385 posted on 08/16/2005 10:59:48 AM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: From many - one.

It's unfortunate they went and changed it. It gives foreigners, like myself, a skewed vision of what the US is all about.


386 posted on 08/16/2005 11:15:39 AM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: Matchett-PI

The Calvinism-Arminism debate can get hilarious. The senior pastor at my former church got called on the carpet by Jack Hayfert (the Grand Pooh-Bah of the Foursquare Gospel Church). His offense?

Preaching "Calvinism"! His defense? "I preached on the subject of predestination because its in the Bible!"

The longer I am a Christian, the more I become convinced that Calvin had a point (or five...).


387 posted on 08/16/2005 11:17:36 AM PDT by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat [Quicquid peius optimo nefas])
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To: malakhi
"Apparently, all it takes to be a creationist is a willingness to make assertions without any evidence to back them up.

We live on the inside surface of a Dyson sphere. Nothing exists on the outside, and all the stars we see are nothing but search and Christmas lights. There is no proof that there is such a thing as gravity, we stay where we are because of the push of sunlight. Night is nothing but having the wool pulled over our eyes.

388 posted on 08/16/2005 11:23:59 AM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: b_sharp

Particularly now when we have those coming here who have no intention of "becoming one."


389 posted on 08/16/2005 11:27:09 AM PDT by From many - one.
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To: b_sharp
Heck, I think y'all are just figments of my imagination!

If I'm going to deny reality, I might as well go for complete solipsism. :o)

390 posted on 08/16/2005 11:27:49 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: pby
"There are no errors in the Bible.

"If you are going to state that there are errors, then please provide citations.

Let's start with the easy one. The Noachian flood is a physical impossibility. The flood left no evidence of a global flood, to the contrary, only evidence of multiple relatively small local floods and many areas that show no effects of rapidly flowing water whatsoever. That sounds like an error to me.

391 posted on 08/16/2005 11:35:40 AM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: pby

science's inability to absolutely answer every question in the universe.

You have a profound misunderstanding of science. Science makes and has never made any such claim.

As for the Bible having all the answers...I've read enough to know enough not to waste any more of my time reading more.

392 posted on 08/16/2005 11:36:14 AM PDT by ml1954
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To: Gumlegs

Well done! Very fair, articulate, and well reasoned.


393 posted on 08/16/2005 11:42:11 AM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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March-of-the-crazies placemarker.


394 posted on 08/16/2005 11:52:30 AM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: malakhi

[whispering figment] Send me your money. Send me your money. Send me your money...


395 posted on 08/16/2005 12:03:44 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: balrog666
"March-of-the-crazies placemarker"

Hey! I may be weird, I may even be a bit crazy, but there is no way I'm ever going to march. Not for love nor money.

I trip over my own feet too easily.:-(

396 posted on 08/16/2005 12:08:47 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: malakhi; tallhappy
A Debate That Does Not End
--George Will
397 posted on 08/16/2005 12:20:55 PM PDT by Condorman (Changes aren't permanent, but change is.)
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To: narby
When conservatives promote moral issues, the facts are on our side. Gays die sooner.

FYI, this fact needs some work.

398 posted on 08/16/2005 12:26:57 PM PDT by Condorman (Changes aren't permanent, but change is.)
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To: Condorman
FYI, this fact needs some work.

A quick google looks like this particular item is in dispute. Whatever.

But my original point was that conservatives have quite a bit of facts to support our political positions. And we do.

399 posted on 08/16/2005 12:46:40 PM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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To: b_sharp
Hey! I may be weird, I may even be a bit crazy, but there is no way I'm ever going to march. Not for love nor money.

I meant the nutcases who think nothing of imposing Christianity on society at the point of a federal gun. They are no different than the Taliban or the wahhabi Islamocrazies.

400 posted on 08/16/2005 1:05:16 PM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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