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To: dsc
No, if the people who have spent man-centuries and huge sums of money looking for them [our little green unearthly progenators] can't find them, they why posit that they are here?

And the exact same thing can be said for scientific evidence of God's creation of life. So much for ID as a science. I'm glad we agree.

199 posted on 08/20/2005 10:31:50 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh

Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes on evolution, intelligent design, and the meaning of life:

"I think it's very unfortunate that this kind of discussion has come up. People are misusing the term intelligent design to think that everything is frozen by that one act of creation and that there's no evolution, no changes. It's totally illogical in my view. Intelligent design, as one sees it from a scientific point of view, seems to be quite real. This is a very special universe: it's remarkable that it came out just this way. If the laws of physics weren't just the way they are, we couldn't be here at all. The sun couldn't be there, the laws of gravity and nuclear laws and magnetic theory, quantum mechanics, and so on have to be just the way they are for us to be here.

"Some scientists argue that "well, there's an enormous number of universes and each one is a little different. This one just happened to turn out right." Well, that's a postulate, and it's a pretty fantastic postulate — it assumes there really are an enormous number of universes and that the laws could be different for each of them. The other possibility is that ours was planned, and that's why it has come out so specially. Now, that design could include evolution perfectly well. It's very clear that there is evolution, and it's important. Evolution is here, and intelligent design is here, and they're both consistent."

Read more:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/06/17_townes.shtml


214 posted on 08/20/2005 10:56:31 PM PDT by LeftCoastNeoCon (Spell-check free and proud of it.)
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