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To: Right Wing Professor
So ID is part of 'God's general revelation', and a means to rid people of materialism, but it's not religious, it's scientific.

Well, since Dembski believes that ID is scientifically accurate, and since he believes in God, you can put two and two together as well as I can. What you can't do is make the realistic claim that because a proponent of a particular theory has a religious view surrounding it, any teaching of the theory in a public school is thus tainted as a church/state violation.

It really isn't that hard to look at what's going on in a classroom and see if what's being taught is or is not religion. If they're examining scientific evidence, and not introducing any religious texts or religious dogma, then it's not religion, regardless of how strongly you disagree with the conclusions they're drawing from the evidence.

232 posted on 09/30/2005 5:03:00 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: inquest
Well, since Dembski believes that ID is scientifically accurate, and since he believes in God, you can put two and two together as well as I can. What you can't do is make the realistic claim that because a proponent of a particular theory has a religious view surrounding it, any teaching of the theory in a public school is thus tainted as a church/state violation.

You didn't respond to my question. Name a generally accepted scientific theory that has a 'religious view surrounding it'

ID is religion in a cheap tuxedo. The scam is blown, largerly because of the words of its proponents. It's not a scientific theory, it's a proseytizing mechanism for fundamentalist protestants. Dembski says so. I believe him.

278 posted on 09/30/2005 8:16:05 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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