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Show Me the Science [Critique of Intelligent Design, by Daniel Dennett
New York Times ^ | August 28, 2005 | Daniel C. Dennett

Posted on 08/28/2005 2:14:36 PM PDT by AZLiberty

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Is "intelligent design" a legitimate school of scientific thought? Is there something to it, or have these people been taken in by one of the most ingenious hoaxes in the history of science? Wouldn't such a hoax be impossible? No. Here's how it has been done.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Technical
KEYWORDS: allcrevoallthetime; crevolist; crevorepublic; enoughalready; evolution; id; intelligentdesign; science; secularworry; walltowallcrevo; youmadeyourpointojay
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To: Dimensio; b_sharp; Junior
Sorry.

But Dawkins wrote a book on it.

Do you understand what Dawkins meant by The Blind Watchmaker?

It was a rebuttal to Paley's argument, not a corroboration of it.

Yeah I know that. So what?

421 posted on 08/30/2005 6:12:15 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: Junior
Occam's razor requires the simplest explanation consistent with the evidence.
422 posted on 08/30/2005 6:13:05 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: js1138

Forget about the board of directors, what about the list of judges? they will be doing the critical review of the entries, not the board of directors.


423 posted on 08/30/2005 6:14:34 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Who are the judges?


424 posted on 08/30/2005 6:18:47 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: Junior
Are you deliberately being silly? That's not what I said

That right you merely implied it, but now you go right on to actually say it;

I also explained why I think they're a creationist front group.

Thanks for clearing it up.

425 posted on 08/30/2005 6:21:58 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: js1138

Nevermind. I found the list.


426 posted on 08/30/2005 6:27:41 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138
Judges
427 posted on 08/30/2005 6:32:08 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: b_sharp
You keep bragging about this I'll pay the pilot to throw you out next flight.

So I have to listen to everyone else brag about how high they go at the big HQ and I'm supposed to pretend to be impressed? I got the patch. I got the memories. Nobody can take that away. Nobody.

428 posted on 08/30/2005 6:40:53 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
As previously mentioned, we were in "Wagner" mode. Scares the crap out of the cretins.
429 posted on 08/30/2005 6:42:05 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
FFFFT!

Okay, you were never up in a black helicopter, or any helicopter of any kind. You were in an amusement park and had a nice ride in a little pink teacup, but unfortunately you ate too much cotton candy and soda pop and spent the rest of the afternoon throwing up behind the fun house. You'll never do that again.

430 posted on 08/30/2005 6:55:03 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Gumlegs
I was in a confusement park and had a nice ride in a little tink peacup.

</stunned_mode>

431 posted on 08/30/2005 7:01:25 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
... Yeah, but then, you know, you like met this chick who really felt sorry for you and like kept in touch and all. She like lost those really weird friends of hers, and she even bought you a nice bottle of that Australian ...thing ... stuff ... you like, and you, like really ended up having a nice time, okay? So, be cool.


432 posted on 08/30/2005 7:14:26 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Gumlegs
That's her? This is love!
433 posted on 08/30/2005 7:30:34 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Occam's razor requires the simplest explanation consistent with the evidence.

Okay. I'm exhausted. Katrina blew through here and knocked out my power at 0230. I've Been up since. Isn't that what I said earlier or am I missing something?

434 posted on 08/30/2005 7:48:01 AM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: Gumlegs
Squinting more closely at that picture, she has the cooties from hell.
435 posted on 08/30/2005 7:58:56 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro

Those would be the weird friends she lost ... all for you. Must be love.


436 posted on 08/30/2005 8:13:23 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Gumlegs
If you're sure she's over the infestation, maybe. But even now on another thread I'm going ga-ga over Diana Rigg.
437 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:35 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro

Perfectly understandable. Which thread?


438 posted on 08/30/2005 8:37:02 AM PDT by Gumlegs
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To: Gumlegs
Thread about some recent nobody named Eva Longoria being the sexiest TV woman of all time. Huh?
439 posted on 08/30/2005 11:18:56 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Junior

And who perpetrated the hoax? Creationists? I think not.


440 posted on 08/30/2005 12:54:51 PM PDT by protest1
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