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Intelligent Design The Scientific Alternative to Evolution
THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS QUARTERLY ^ | AUTUMN 2003 | William S. Harris and John H. Calvert

Posted on 09/13/2005 4:20:14 PM PDT by rob777

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To: rob777
Intelligent Design The Scientific Alternative to Evolution

Scientific? ID? In the same sentence?

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41 posted on 09/13/2005 5:54:45 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!)
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To: Ma3lst0rm
Intelligent design or the theory of abrupt appearance whichever one is to take both make scientifically testable hypothesizes that attempt to step back from or extend standard evolutionary theory.

It's all a little too convenient...like the misguided "active principle" theory. It all goes up to a certain point and says, "Well, that was God's work! End of discussion!"

That is the antithesis of science.

And between you and me, I don't want Leftist union schoolteachers trying to explain the Divine in a science class. I've seen what those suckers have done with math. It ain't pretty.

42 posted on 09/13/2005 5:58:14 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: Prime Choice
And between you and me, I don't want Leftist union schoolteachers trying to explain the Divine in a science class. I've seen what those suckers have done with math. It ain't pretty.

And reading! Don't forget reading!

44 posted on 09/13/2005 6:00:42 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Is this a good tagline?)
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To: PatrickHenry

An "oh no, not another one" ping.


45 posted on 09/13/2005 6:01:38 PM 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: Prime Choice
And between you and me, I don't want Leftist union schoolteachers trying to explain the Divine in a science class. I've seen what those suckers have done with math. It ain't pretty.

Kinda like how the public schools teach biology. You don't have to go much farther than these threads to see that evolution isn't even taught.

46 posted on 09/13/2005 6:01:40 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: rob777

ID is not scientific. Here it is in a nutshell: "It's too complex, so God did it" (read: the Christian god, not Allah, Zeus, Odin, etc).


48 posted on 09/13/2005 6:06:41 PM PDT by JasonSC
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To: Junior

I ain't gonna ping for this thing. Unless you can convince me that this thread has some significance.


49 posted on 09/13/2005 6:07:13 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Discoveries attributable to the scientific method -- 100%; to creation science -- zero.)
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To: mlc9852
It certainly rules out Genesis.

Nonsense.

Genesis is a wonderful story handed down by God and simplified by man's limited grasp of the Creation. If anything, science has upheld far more of the Genesis tale than you realize.

And God said, "Let there be Light." (Big bang)

God created Eve from Adam's rib. (Cloning with a remarkable on-the-fly alteration.)

...and that's just two off-the-cuff examples.

But if you wanna be closed-minded about it, that's your deal.

50 posted on 09/13/2005 6:12:19 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: rob777
The very concept of Intelligent Design has, at its fundamental core, the notion of an Greater Being as the architect.

Tell me how that is not theological.

51 posted on 09/13/2005 6:15:44 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I'm here.:) Not anymore...:)


52 posted on 09/13/2005 6:30:38 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (RIP, Chief Justice Rehnquist.)
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To: Tired_of_the_nonsense
we can't deny there is something beyond our knowing, and yet we can't prove it either; therefore, it's up for grabs

Thanks for the reasoned response, Tired. Not always the case on these threads.

The problem is just as you have stated it. If it is beyond our knowing, and we can't prove or disprove it, don't you think this takes it out of the realm of science?

Let's try a thought exercise. The entire universe was created with all of its past intact: fossils, light streaming from distant galaxies, as well as your memories of high school and last month's TV shows.

So how do you know when the universe was created? Last Thursday? A week ago Thursday, at 9:00 AM (EST of course)?

What evidence will you be able to bring to discussion of this question?

The problem you have is that you can only work with (1) your belief (perhaps 4004 B.C., October 23rd at 9:00 AM), or (2) facts and theories. You can choose one or the other.

You see the problem? If you go with belief, then whose belief? I post many great Native American creation stories, which you probably do believe. But I know people who do believe them. But CS and ID are not about that. They are about the bible and its creation story. But there is a lot of argument about exactly how that transpired--young earth or old earth, etc. So even within the creation realm there is no unaninimity.

On the other hand, if you go with science there are simply no data available to address this question!

Faith deals with belief and certainty, while science deals with facts and theories. Facts are added all the time, and they are sneaky, stubborn little guys; a stubborn fact has ruined many a good theory. Hence theories evolve through time to fit the facts. But at least there is data there, with the expectation of more data in the future. And there are theories (explanations), with the expectation of better theories in the future. Science is a process, not an absolute, and the results are explanations (theories) not "proof."

Those seem to be the choices. Belief and certainty vs. facts and theories, with no common data to share between the two. As such, it would be nice if the two could be kept separate as they are really different worlds (or as I was advised earlier today, different world views).

So from my viewpoint, your belief does not constitute scientific data or theory. I don't doubt that you feel the same way about science and its methods and results.

Lets keep the two in their own domains, eh?

53 posted on 09/13/2005 6:31:23 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Is this a good tagline?)
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To: EagleUSA

Exactly the opposite. Liberals are proof that evolution is a fraud. Survival of the fittest??? Puh-leeze.


54 posted on 09/13/2005 6:32:23 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (RIP, Chief Justice Rehnquist.)
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To: rob777
No one actually believes in "Intelligent Design Theory" --except as a legal scheme and PR/propaganda "wedge" to undermine the natural sciences, and in particular biology, in favor of creationism and theism. The authors state: "Intelligent Design is not Creation Science," but it is creation science that that "evolved" under the pressure of the court cases that the article itself describes.

The authors describe "Intelligent Design" as a big tent that apparently accommodates Young Earth Creationistism. If "Intelligent Design" is compatible with Young Earth Creationism, it is, incompatible with findings from geology, paleontology, molecular biology, genomics, physical anthropology, astronomy, physics and archaeology.

The authors claim that "Intelligent Design" is not religion, but throughout the article, and in the final paragraphs, it is clear that the appeal of "Intelligent Design" is in its religious implications.

"Intelligent Design Theory" is not science.

55 posted on 09/13/2005 6:33:35 PM PDT by MRMEAN (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress;but I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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56 posted on 09/13/2005 6:41:10 PM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: MRMEAN
If "Intelligent Design" is compatible with Young Earth Creationism, it is, incompatible with findings from geology, paleontology, molecular biology, genomics, physical anthropology, astronomy, physics and archaeology.

You have it backwards. ID is agnostic on the age of the earth. It's not a matter of ID being compatible with Young Earth creationism. It's the other way around. Young Earth creationism by its very nature accepts the concept that creation was designed. And I agree with you that ID is not science. Neither is macro evolution for that matter. Both are philosophy.

57 posted on 09/13/2005 6:54:54 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Wonder Warthog

"It is not capable of predicting or explaining new biological facts, which evolution does quite nicely."

That's because it's a _measurement_. A thermometer can't predict or explain new biological facts, either. That's because it's doing it's job measuring energy. Likewise, design detection is a measurement -- it measures the design within a system.


59 posted on 09/13/2005 7:13:37 PM PDT by johnnyb_61820
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To: Tired_of_the_nonsense
undetectable energy that we can sense on some level

I know what you mean by this, but it is not undetectable.

However, it is interpreted in many different ways, by people doing their best to understand it.

One of these ways led to the world's religions.

60 posted on 09/13/2005 7:14:21 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Is this a good tagline?)
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