Posted on 08/18/2005 5:17:34 PM PDT by curiosity
http://www.caseforacreator.com/home.php
a very good book.
Maureen Dowd, in her inimitable way, summed up the liberal argument earlier this year:
Exploiting God for political ends has set off powerful, scary forces in America: a retreat on teaching evolution, most recently in Kansas; fights over sex education . . . a demonizing of gays; and a fear of stem cell research, which could lead to more of a "culture of life" than keeping one vegetative woman hooked up to a feeding tube.
He loves Maureen Dowd. 'Nuff said.
No issue makes us look like a bunch of uneducated moonbats than the NUTS who push junk science known as "intelligent design" based on a fairy tale.
The left doesn't have a clue about anything intelligent. Let them get vociferous over something they know nothing about.
No, quite the opposite. Intelligent design is irrational, and that is why it will sink us in the end. Reason will prevail eventually.
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There are many arguments that evolution is part of intelligent design and a rather beautiful and elegant part of that design to boot. In the same way man guided the evolution of canines to todays great danes and chiuauas so too is there a divine hand in the evolution and creation of all the world's creatures.
What's funny is that some of the people who support intelligent design the most aren't ignorant bible thumping conservatives but pysisists and astronomers on the bleeding edge of science who must deal with the impossibility of all this being a random coincidence on a daily basis.
And that is why intelligent design will ultimately succeed because it's not just faith which backs it up its the fact that if the "settings" of the universe were off by a billionth of a billionth of a percentage point (speed of light, electron volt, etc) the life, the universe and everything would simply not exist at all.
Some people are truly blind.
What merits? The Utilitarian Code of Merit? Liberals, libertarians, and conservatives who support stealing my money to kill human beings don't argue the case on its merits, they lie, obfuscate and instill false hope and fear in those afraid of their own mortality.
Your link is broken.
Do I believe the Earth is only a few thousand years old? No. Do I believe God is built the universe and everything in it as He saw fit? You bet. And part of our job is to honor and celebrate this wondrous creation by appreciating it and trying to understand the sheer magnitude and magificience of its complexity.
Well, I think that, superficially, much of "the public" would agree with the notion that the world is "designed."
still waiting for the scientist to duplicate evolution in the lab.
So you believe in...what? The theory of willy-nillyism? Accidental everything?
How sad for you.
And how ignorant you will appear in a few years. Most of the scientific community is actually moving toward intelligent design, by that or several other names which mean the same thing.
Exactly, intelligent design is a matter of faith. Unfortunately, some crackpots are trying to push it off as science. That's the problem. That's what makes us look like moonbats.
Outstanding find. Douthat eloquently expresses the fears that many of us here on FR have also held about what ID will do to conservatism.
That statement was designed no understanding of what generations have considered godless.
I know next to nothing about Intelligent Design.
Do all Intelligent Design proponents, nowdays, believe exactly the same thing -- that it is an alternative to Darwinism?
I do know I was taught in HS Biology, 40 years ago, that the theory of evolution was acceptable as long as one believed God was behind whatever evolution took place. That has always seemed, to me, like the common sense to way to look at the world.
Was what I was taught the same as "Intelligent Design"?
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