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To: TASMANIANRED
How is the Wedge Strategy any different than Dawkins and his merry band of atheists wanting to destroy all religion....

Not so much different; Dawkins is being an idiot. And the IDers and their attempt to destroy science???

Other than a few minor examples where did belief in a God impair science at all.

The Middle Ages and current Muslim nations to name just two examples.

Science really took off with the enlightenment. I see ID as an attempt to return to earlier times, as stated in the Wedge Strategy:

We are building on this momentum, broadening the wedge with a positive scientific alternative to materialistic scientific theories, which has come to be called the theory of intelligent design (ID). Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions [emphasis added].

76 posted on 10/08/2007 2:59:54 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

Muddying the waters a bit.

Middle ages did just fine with science considering the knowledge base at the time..

Current Islam is a case apart...They are a death cult that has virtually nothing to do with the discussion at hand.


80 posted on 10/08/2007 3:52:39 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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