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To: SirLinksalot
Where, one reader demanded, did I get the information that 10 percent of scientists accept intelligent design? I got it from a National Post (newspaper) article published two years ago, which said that 90 percent of the members of the National Academy of Science "consider themselves atheists." Since if you're not an atheist, you allow for the possibility of a Mind or Intelligence behind nature, this puts 10 percent in the I.D. camp.

This is not an honest means by which to derive such a statistic. Not being an atheist does not imply believing in the non-scientific assertion called "Intelligent Design", which makes specific (and untestable) claims. Deriving such a statistic through very obviously specious means leads me to question the author's honesty and rationality.
164 posted on 04/15/2006 2:35:49 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
Deriving such a statistic through very obviously specious means leads me to question the author's honesty and rationality.

Publlishing in World Net Daily doesn't add much credibility either.

424 posted on 04/16/2006 11:46:47 AM PDT by Virginia-American
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