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Intelligent Design case decided - Dover, Pennsylvania, School Board loses [Fox News Alert]
Fox News | 12/20/05

Posted on 12/20/2005 7:54:38 AM PST by snarks_when_bored

Fox News alert a few minutes ago says the Dover School Board lost their bid to have Intelligent Design introduced into high school biology classes. The federal judge ruled that their case was based on the premise that Darwin's Theory of Evolution was incompatible with religion, and that this premise is false.


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KEYWORDS: biology; creation; crevolist; dover; education; evolution; intelligentdesign; keywordpolice; ruling; scienceeducation
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To: bobdsmith
Evolution still has to explain an increase in complexity. I think we can all agree that vertebrates are more complex than a single celled organism. Okay evolution does not require complexity to increase, but it has so it better well explain it!

Google "gene duplication."

981 posted on 12/20/2005 1:57:31 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: staytrue
the question becomes how did the original matter come into existence?

the question becomes how did the original Creator come into existence?

Both questions have difficult answers.

I openly admit mine is based on faith.

982 posted on 12/20/2005 1:58:00 PM PST by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9/11 never happened-liberals pretend it didn't!)
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To: xzins
Creationism is not ID.

ID does not require the designer to be a sentient being.

Just out of curiosity, what does the 'I' in 'ID' stand for then?

983 posted on 12/20/2005 1:58:07 PM PST by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
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To: thomaswest

Good post.


984 posted on 12/20/2005 1:58:25 PM PST by narby (Hillary! The Wicked Witch of the Left)
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To: staytrue

>the question becomes how did the original Creator come into existence?

Veeja was made by him.


985 posted on 12/20/2005 1:58:35 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
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To: eleni121
Lies and more lies. Why would I believe a copy paste website that pushes EVO theory?

Typical creationist. Ignore any evidence that contradicts your false claims, because you can't dare admit that you were mistaken.

Still waiting on a reference to even one doctoral dissertation on Piltdown Man. You claimed that over 500 were written, but you've utterly refused to provide any evidence for your claim. Not surprising, coming from a liar like you.

Darwin and Marx influenced many within science — and were committed to an historical materialist and dialectical philosophy-secularism. Darwin was nothing more than a sad sack budding commie---with proclivities to racism and Nazism.

You're a liar and a fraud. Why should I believe anything that you say when the only things you use to support your claims are demonstratable lies? Nothing you say can be trusted, ever.
986 posted on 12/20/2005 2:00:04 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: narby; Alamo-Girl

ID does not require a "creator." As soon as one requires a creator, then one is not speaking of ID.

The intelligent designer can be a phenomenon or a process or a sentient being. It simply requires a +factor that can take products of lesser complexity and build them into products of exponential complexity in the available time.


987 posted on 12/20/2005 2:00:12 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: benjibrowder

"DNA actually proofreads itself in some cases. So this would prevent change."

Oh, my. Yes, DNA most often replicates accurately, but not always. That's why you don't look exactly like either of your parents, you see. That's variation. It's one of the amazing things about sexual reproduction. There is an almost endless variety available, even from just two parents.

Now, just suppose both of your parents had rather short fingers, but you expressed a genetic trait that meant you ended up with long, slender fingers, something that happens all the time. This is really simple, so I know you'll be able to follow along.

Your parents, with their short fingers, would have been very poor at becoming concert pianists, while you might well excel at that, having the long, slender fingers required. Or, perhaps a concert violinist.

Now, imagine a world where concert pianists and violinists made a great deal of money, thereby attracting mates who liked success. Your offspring would be more likely to have those long fingers, and be more likely to be concert pianists or violinists, thereby becoming successful and mating successfully. More long fingers. More success. This is variation.

You are not a clone. You are a wierd blend of genetic characteristics that melds the genetic material of countless generations in your line of descent. When something pops out that helps you succeed, you attract better mates. Eventually, everyone in your line may have longer and longer fingers, and become a species of pianists or violinists that cannot breed with short-fingered plebes.


988 posted on 12/20/2005 2:00:31 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: eleni121
You can wait until hell freezes over and then some

Ha! That's about what I expected - catch a creationsist in a falsehood, and he goes on the attack.

989 posted on 12/20/2005 2:00:35 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Humans are not monkeys.

We neither share nor have anything in common with them.


990 posted on 12/20/2005 2:01:04 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman

Having trouble are we? Darwin was in fact a misanthrope. Duplicitous and opportunistic...like his heirs here.


991 posted on 12/20/2005 2:01:19 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121
Darwin was nothing more than a sad sack budding commie---with proclivities to racism and Nazism. Get a life.

Darwin was a Whig, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery, free market economics and limted Government. Are you ignorant or a liar?

992 posted on 12/20/2005 2:01:48 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: eleni121
Darwin was in fact a misanthrope.

A claim for which -- just like all of your other claims -- you provide no evidence. Why do you make baseless assertions and then run away like a coward when asked to support them? Why are you such a transparent fraud?
993 posted on 12/20/2005 2:02:00 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Fester Chugabrew; thomaswest
TS: ID has no record of carrying out scientific experiments or suggesting experiments or providing descriptive classifications or understandings.

FC: There is no scientific experiment that can be carried out, suggested, or provided, without employing intelligent design.


994 posted on 12/20/2005 2:02:11 PM PST by Michael_Michaelangelo (The best theory is not ipso facto a good theory. Lots of links on my homepage...)
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To: staytrue
All competing theories are welcome except the ones that say "god did it" QED.

That is religion and not science.

So even if it became clear that God created the Earth, the universe, and all its creatioins(which it already is, in my opinion), science would rather hide from the truth?

995 posted on 12/20/2005 2:02:13 PM PST by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9-11 never happened-liberals pretend it didn't!)
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To: Antonello; Alamo-Girl

Intelligence.

Intelligence is not necessarily personal....the definition is far broader.

An intelligence is any "organizing principle."


996 posted on 12/20/2005 2:02:13 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: Baraonda

"Humans are not monkeys.

We neither share nor have anything in common with them."

Oh, my goodness. You have no idea, do you? You are so much like a chimp or a gorilla that it's almost impossible to describe a real difference.

Go visit the zoo.


997 posted on 12/20/2005 2:03:06 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: furball4paws

So, an increase in fitness is not necessarily an increase in complexity. Is that what you are saying? I always thought the fundamental assertion of evoltuion is that matter has demonstrated, by and large, a progession from the simple to the more complex. Of course, if it is a theory to which all the evidence can be shoe-horned, one would expect there to be ample cases of the reverse.

The fact is, in every case where matter is organized an argument against unguided, unpurposeful, undesigned, unintelligent cause is made. It would be a better argument for evolution if the general direction of matter were toward dissemblance, but that does not seem to be the case at least in our biosphere.


998 posted on 12/20/2005 2:03:07 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: eleni121

"Having trouble are we?"

No.

"Darwin was in fact a misanthrope."

Evidence please. Your desire for this to be does not count.

"Duplicitous and opportunistic...like his heirs here. "

When did he lie? I know you can answer this, as it is a subject your are an expert on.


999 posted on 12/20/2005 2:04:04 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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