Posted on 09/24/2009 6:08:52 AM PDT by xcamel
William Dembski, the “intelligent design” creationist who is a professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has some rather interesting requirements for students of his creationism courses — 20% of their final grade comes from having written 10 posts promoting ID on “hostile” websites: Academic Year 2009-2010.
Spring 2009
Intelligent Design (SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY #AP 410, 510, and 810; May 11 – 16, 2009)
NEW! THE DUE DATE FOR ALL WORK IN THIS COURSE IS AUGUST 14, 2009. Here’s what you will need to do to wrap things up:
AP410 — This is the undegrad [sic] course. You have three things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 40% of your grade); (2) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 40% of your grade); (3) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 2,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
AP510 — This is the masters course. You have four things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 30% of your grade); (2) write a 1,500- to 2,000-word critical review of Francis Collins’s The Language of God — for instructions, see below (20% of your grade); (3) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 30% of your grade); (4) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 3,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
Isn’t amazing how many non-Catholics for Catholicism the Temple of Darwin churns out to go after protestant creationists? Talk about your “wedge” strategies!
If it's not strawmen it's projection...if it's not projection, it's strawmen.
Are you sore because it's a sir-project-alot contest and not a madam-project-alot contest...is that what this is all about?
Because I'm all for equal opportunity recognition of closet liberal FReeper trolls!
I hope you do not think me a complete traitor to turn my back on my own, dear historical party, dearest sister in Christ! There's a method to my madness, coming under two heads:
(1) No way the GOP is entitled to depend on me, if I cannot depend on it.
(2) There is a certain electoral flexibility in Massachusetts to non-party types; i.e. people who are "unenrolled," or not affiliated with a particular political party.
It only comes into play in primary elections — whether for governor, senator, or congressman. In Massachusetts primaries, a registered Republican must vote the Republican ballot. A registered Democrat must vote the Democrat ballot. An unenrolled — independent — voter, however, may request whichever ballot he prefers to vote.
I can envision a primary situation where there's a strong Republican contender who, facing other Republican challengers, doesn't seem to need any particular help from me — in the primary, at least. The Democrat primary, however, may feature various candidates of different strengths. I might choose the Dem primary ballot to vote for the second-strongest candidate in the Dem field, thus to weaken the frontrunner of the Dem field — who must face the Republican primary winner in the general election.... Who I would most likely vote for then: There's only one ballot in the general election.
Probably the world cannot be saved by such a strategy. But at least I feel that I, as an American citizen and voter, have a little free "wiggle room" in doing my best to influence elections....
So, whether it be deemed good or ill by others, my change of voter registration to "no-party affiliation" seemed to increase the range of possibilities over which I might have some effect.
At least that is the reason why I did what I did.
GGG knows what I mean. I don’t owe you any explanations.
I don't think “proof” offered by Catholics is different than what is offered by anyone else but you'll have to go to GGG for elaboration on that. I don't speak for anyone other than myself.
(If youy’re interested I can get jack-boots half price, black only. just a thought)
It is one of their dishonest liberal trump cards. It is what liberals are best at.
You don't need to look past this very thread.
Exactly.
A joke and a fraud is you...looking at posts #177 and #286 on this very thread and then post #323...your subsequent slap down upside the head response exposing you for the fraud and joke YOU are...LOL!
You're just sore because you got exposed!
Please show a post where I “ridicule people of faith”.
As far a that goes...
right in this very thread:
#149
#151
more...but who's counting...it's throughout your posting history just like metmom explained.
Good point!
Are you senseless? I told you. But the poll itself is referenced. Kinda like the fossils you depend on.
Scientific data for creation. Why look in the mirror.
Now, I have not asserted anything here about creation, but you will not take me down the distracting path you are attempting to entice me down. The simple fact is, you made an assertion about what people here think, namely "A vast number of real conservative freepers (whom you regularly trash viscously) would agree." You've not given one shred of evidence to back that up. Put up, or as they say, shut up.
GGG is aware, I’m sure, that he and I would not be in accord on every little detail of our respective beliefs, yet I can’t imagine that he would accuse me of ever being a Nazi, a Liberal (spit), or an atheist.
I’m sure it was simply an oversight that you failed to ping GGG since you were talking about him, or he could be telling you that himself.
“It just fits in with the typical evo mentality that believing that the Bible means what it says and is authoritative, is being a cultist.”
So does pi=3?
He has time to spam the forums, he has time to read the threads. I don’t have to ping him. He’ll see it in time.
Bingo! Boop hits it out of the park . . . again.
Simple courtesy, old boy. All the best people do it.
LOL...where’s the beef?
Perhaps ID would do better also if it were not so anti-God.
I'll have to remember that for next time an evo complains about not getting courtesy pinged.
Utility grade accusation: Spam. But spamming the forum? Sounds like guys in white togas with the daily gossip.
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