Ahhh - the battle against religion builds!
Gramsci, Lenin, Marx, and the DNC are smiling!
I almost wish for their "revolution" to start openly - get it all over and done with!
I love the term supernatural. If it is a phenomenon that occurs and is inexplicable, by current standards, it is still a phenomenon.
OTOH, if it is not observable, by current standards, it is not a phenomenon. It is not a very useful term.
But folks sure bandy it about pretty loosely.
DK
Well not all religion, just Christianity and fundamentalist Koran worshipping Islam
Well not all Christianity, just Evangelical Christianity and fundamentalist Koran worshipping Islam
Well not all Evangelical Christianity, just fundamentalist Bible worshipping Creationism and fundamentalist Koran worshipping Islam
No. In this case it's religion that's on the attack against science by attempting to replace the realistic search for truth with faith in supernatural. The proponents of religion would be better served by fighting the battles coming into their own yard than to jump into someone else's yard with a fight they can't win in court.
Gramsci, Lenin, and Marx are dead--and their failed ideologies are expiring.
But I think you are right to suggest the DNC are indeed smiling, and with good cause: a small band of religious fundamentalists are about to get clobbered in a court case (and most deservedly so), exposing ID as an attempt to use bogus science to smuggle religion into the classroom. This will allow our opponents to portray (and, sadly, with some modicum of truth) conservatives as assailers of our basic 1st amendment freedoms. This was a completely stupid thing to do.
I almost wish for their "revolution" to start openly
Whose revolution? What on earth are you talking about?
Consider these scientists doing you a favor. Do you really want religion precepts, including yours, to be examined with scientific objectivity? When they come up short, are you ready for folks to abandon your religion in droves as a "false" religion because it doesn't stack up to reality?
Religion is safer and more fulfilling as an article of faith. Attempting to "prove" a religion scientifically (which is all ID is doing) will only lead to heartache and pain.
How is your world constructed, such that those who mount a defense are accused of warwongering?
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?
--James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, 20 June 1785