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To: Senator Bedfellow
The germ theory of disease is just a theory also, and yet there's no sticker insisting that it be treated as such. Why not? Why single out evolution? Is it because the germ theory of disease does not offend someone's religious doctrine?

First, let's get something straight. I believe God created the Universe and all that's in it. So, you might want to argue from that basis. I'm not a big ID guy. But since you asked what a local school board does in some town in Pennsylvania is not any of my concern, nor should it be any of yours unless you vote for that local school board.

Not in the sense that is implicated in biology, not by a long shot. If it were a "fact" in the sense that the Discovery Institute would like it to be, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Exactly in the sense that it is implicated in biology. Like evolution, intelligent design affects changes in allele frequency.

27 posted on 11/05/2005 9:22:52 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
But since you asked what a local school board does in some town in Pennsylvania is not any of my concern, nor should it be any of yours unless you vote for that local school board.

I'm fairly sure that neither of us have our right to free expression predicated on whether or not we can vote to directly influence the outcome. You don't care, and that's fine. You apparently think nobody outside Anytown should care either, and that's fine too. But most folks have a funny habit of deciding for themselves what they do and don't care about, what they will and won't speak out about, regardless of which zip code they happen to be in.

Like evolution, intelligent design affects changes in allele frequency.

Great, now all you have to do to establish the "fact" of ID in the DI sense is present evidence of some nonhuman designer working over structures or organisms heretofore thought to be naturalistic in origin. Be sure to show your work ;)

30 posted on 11/05/2005 9:50:16 AM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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