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To: Liberal Classic
We all have to pay taxes.

Yes, but those who wish to have their children exposed to the possibility of intelligent design as an explanation for organized matter that performs specific functions should not have to pay twice for the privilege.

779 posted on 05/05/2006 5:44:19 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Yes, but those who wish to have their children exposed to the possibility of intelligent design as an explanation for organized matter that performs specific functions

But then ID doesn't "explain" anything. Actual scientific theories explain facts and phenomena by means of integral mechanisms or models. ID (quite intentionally) has no mechanism or model, and (again intentionally) refuses to posit any. It merely pretends to "infer" the presence of "intelligent design," and then stops there. It's too vacuous to explain "design," or anything else for that matter. What's worse, your utterly idiosyncratic version of ID ("organized matter that performs specific functions" -- which basically applies to everything that does, or can, exist anywhere in the universe) is EVEN MORE vacuous than actual ID as forwarded by Behe, Dembski, et al!

785 posted on 05/05/2006 7:25:12 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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