To: jonboy
"Similarly, Intelligent Design is about a supernatural creation of all things."
Tell that to the proponents of ID.
"I would argue that since evolution is an unproven theory that there is no right to have it taught as fact."
ALL theories in science are unproven. Evolution is in good company.
"It was a "fact" for many years that the earth was flat, until it was proven wrong."
The world was shown not to be flat over two thousand years ago, by the Greeks. BTW, *facts* are not *theories*. They are very different things.
"If you have only two possibilities of how the universe came to be, natural or supernatural, unless you are an elitist snob you place both in the text book."
Not in a science textbook you don't. Science doesn't deal with the supernatural. Why would you put supernatural speculation in a science textbook?
"The current debate assumes that the supernatural and the natural cannot co-exist within one realm. This is a false assumption. "
How do they coexist?
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12/09/2005 7:55:56 AM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
The same way you co-exist with your flesh. We can put your flesh under a microscope and look at it, yet we will not discover your person merely by looking at your flesh. Perhaps you are empirically certain you are nothing more than a ball of particle matter. That's okay. But there happen to be some people who think you are more than that, and they may even have reasonably scientific reasons for believing as much.
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