Posted on 07/17/2009 11:50:25 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Responses from the Darwin faithful to anything touching upon intelligent design are often so thoughtless it takes your breath away. I guess this is how they manage to stay impervious to the evidentiary challenge to their religion -- they just don’t think it through, or even read it. A single article in a newspaper or journal taxes their ability simply to read what a person says and respond to that, rather than to what they imagine he would say. Consider the cases of Ewen Callaway and Jerry Coyne.
When Stephen C. Meyer wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe on Thomas Jefferson as a proto-ID supporter, outraged science journalist Callaway at the New Scientist couldn’t even mount an argument. He calls linking Jefferson and ID a “ridiculous assertion.” But he doesn’t tell us why it’s ridiculous. He writes:...
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I find your tag-line rather interesting. Conversely, evolution would be: “It just happened”.
Have you ever thought about using your influence to help bring order and civility to these discussions?
It would be most helpful if both sides could debate each other with out the threats and childish name calling.
It’s more like filet mignon...stay tuned fore more to come!
LOL. Very appropriate.
Driven by nothing, formed into everything. Really, “self-induced creationism”.
It’d be humorous if the AIs we build in video games one day have this same discussion. Were we intelligently designed, or did we evolve? My AI guy loves to talk about being God to his creations. LOL.
We run them through neural network training that bears some semblance to evolution. But ultimately, they are intelligently designed. And they have no way of interacting with us in our own world. It’s fascinating.
Sure sure. They guy who wrote miracles OUT of the Bible wanted to write miracles INTO the everyday natural processes of life.
Been there. Tried that. Didn’t pan out. Thanks for asking though!
Are you 12?
Thank you for responding.
Sad to say that was the answer I expected.
Jefferson was living proof that one does not need scripture to see God’s hand in creation. Unfortunately for Jefferson, and so many others just like him, that’s not enough:
Romans 1:20—For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
Yes, and Jefferson saw God’s hand in creation as making things sufficient unto themselves and not requiring miracles to sustain a shoddily constructed facade.
If Romans 1:20 is true why do you need to use the Bible to prove the Earth is young?
"In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves."
Hardly someone who believed in the the "God's Fingers Snapped" theory of creation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
You have even less of an excuse than Jefferson. Poor chap.
See #15
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