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To: jennyp

Pennock's throw-away line about a Matrix hypothesis, which he may have intended as a bit of humor, does not help his argument; especially in a bench trial.

Whether one agrees with ID or not, one cannot reasonably say there is no support for the position. Even Miller admitted that evolution is not 'random'.


223 posted on 09/29/2005 12:40:48 PM PDT by connectthedots
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To: connectthedots
Pennock's throw-away line about a Matrix hypothesis, which he may have intended as a bit of humor, does not help his argument; especially in a bench trial.

To quote someone: It was a joke, and everyone in the courtroom would have recognized it as that. There is some humor expressed on occasion in even the most serious of trials.

226 posted on 09/29/2005 12:56:23 PM PDT by Antonello
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To: connectthedots
Pennock's throw-away line about a Matrix hypothesis, which he may have intended as a bit of humor, does not help his argument; especially in a bench trial.

Oh? So we should include equal time for the Matrix theory because it just might conceivably be true?

Whether one agrees with ID or not, one cannot reasonably say there is no support for the position. Even Miller admitted that evolution is not 'random'.

Oh c'mon. We've consistently been trying to explain to you guys that only mutations are random; natural selection is not random. Because of this, the overall process is "self-directed", in a sense, toward increased fitness WRT the current environment. There's no external intelligent person directing things. You still got nuthin'.

234 posted on 09/29/2005 3:05:04 PM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: my sterling prose)
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