Posted on 09/13/2005 4:15:07 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
So what would Charles Darwin have to say about the dust-up between today's evolutionists and intelligent designers?
Probably nothing.
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Even after he became one of the most famous and controversial men of his time, he was always content to let surrogates argue his case.
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From his university days Darwin would have been familiar with the case for intelligent design. In 1802, nearly 30 years before the Beagle set sail, William Paley, the reigning theologian of his time, published "Natural Theology" in which he laid out his "Argument from Design."
Paley contended that if a person discovered a pocket watch while taking a ramble across the heath, he would know instantly that this was a designed object, not something that had evolved by chance. Therefore, there must be a designer. Similarly, man -- a marvelously intricate piece of biological machinery -- also must have been designed by "Someone."
If this has a familiar ring to it, it's because this is pretty much the same argument that intelligent design advocates use today.
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The first great public debate took place on June 30, 1860, in a packed hall at Oxford University's new Zoological Museum.
Samuel Wilberforce, the learned bishop of Oxford, was champing at the bit to demolish Darwin's notion that man descended from apes. As always, Darwin stayed home. His case was argued by one of his admirers, biologist Thomas Huxley.
Wilberforce drew whoops of glee from the gallery when he sarcastically asked Huxley if he claimed descent from the apes on his grandmother's side or his grandfather's. Huxley retorted that he would rather be related to an ape than to a man of the church who used half-truths and nonsense to attack science.
The argument continues unabated ...
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Quit shouting. You'll scare the fish! :>)
"Go and do thou likewise..."
"Well....
If you've REALLY enraged the ex; it may be!!!"
There are material methods of protection against an enraged ex.
1200?
Nope; but getting closer!
Hint: Lead the target......
Migrating hares...
Aren't they related to lemmings?
Yeah, hair moves: from top of head to coming out of ears!
TaDa!!!
Good point!
Only when you are LYING about it, you may not know it!!!
I was trying to think of that, but I didn't know it all.....
The smear continues....
I'm the one who doesn't know about that stuff and marvels that anyone is so conceited as to think he does.
(Not to be confused with "Mr. Know-It-All")
Time for breakfast............
Good agnostics wouldn't know of any hell.
Good thing I came along and caught that. :>)
I have a question for you. We are told that 'man' was created in the "OUR" and the Heavenly Father's image. Now when Adam was created in that image, the woman had not been formed.
What biologically speaking, are we told then that Adam was, prior to being placed into a deep sleep and something was removed to form woman? Wouldn't the Heavenly Father be comprised of both the male and female nature and why the "marriage" of the male and female would make them one?
I see bats...
We have agnostic/atheists, self-described as such. And we have agnostic/theists, self-described as such.
I assume the A2's are saying, "There's no God, but on my weak days I wonder."
All I've seen from her has been attempts to deny that CR preaches any of the stuff it demonstrably does preach. She has, in other words, spent her time here defending the movement. And you and bluepistolero have in turn defended her. Even prior to that, I'd inferred she was in fact a Reconstructionist. And, rather than a straightforward 'no I'm not', she said asked me if I wanted to stone her for it. No I don't. That's their schtick. But I do want to expose them.
It's a free country, at least until the CRs take over. I don't press people for public denials they don't want to make. Dissociate yourself from these people, or not, I don't care. But don't claim victim status because people draw attention to your own words. Take responsibility for them.
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