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To: dukeman

There is no "controversy" in the Scientific community. Intelligent design isn't science.


2 posted on 09/19/2005 3:37:19 PM PDT by jess35
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To: jess35

There is no "controversy" in the Scientific community.
***It looks like a scientific "controversy" to me and to 2/3 of the general public. Welcome to politics 101. The scientific controversy mixes with the political controversy and suddenly you're having discussions with boneheads like me over social policy. The key to social policy isn't whether or not some nitpicking scientific point is observed, it is on whether or not it is good for us as a society. Besides, what's the harm in exposing both sides to the controversy? If there is so little scientific basis for ID, it won't hold any water. But these are the same sort of guys who came up with the fact that the fine structure constant of light has changed, so the speed of light is not a constant.

Intelligent design isn't science.
***The haps side of evo/abio isn't science either, it is a philosophy bordering on a religion. The root word for science is "knowledge" -- we're supposed to be teaching what we know in the early science classes. We can teach what is projected to be known later on.


4 posted on 09/19/2005 3:53:40 PM PDT by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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To: jess35
Intelligent design isn't science.

That is a weak, overused, and frankly untrue statement. Defend your stance instead of misrepresenting a theory. I don't hold to ID because it is not compelling enough, but evolutionists say that about every alternative to their theory.

5 posted on 09/19/2005 4:02:40 PM PDT by Tim Long (I'M CREEPING DEATH!!!)
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To: jess35

Ya beat me to it.


23 posted on 09/19/2005 4:52:35 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: jess35

And evolution is?

They are both theories.


109 posted on 09/20/2005 9:38:18 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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