Posted on 01/28/2005 4:28:41 PM PST by metacognative
Most likely he has spoken on the phone with Dr. Meyer. But then again, you are with the Brown Shirts; in one out the other.
"When the Biological Society of Washington issued its embarrassing apology for publishing the paper, the organization pledged that arguments for Intelligent Design 'will not be addressed in future issues of the Proceedings,' regardless of whether the paper passes peer review."
If you say it about one, the saying applies to them all. HaHaHaHa (-: peer-reviewed :-)
"'My conclusion on this,' McDiarmid said, 'was that it was a really bad judgment call on the editor's part.'"
You first reference may have some merit, since you clearly have rocks in your head.
Suggesting that cells constrained in some soup containing Iron Sulphate and Nickle Sulphate "likely" contributed to the "evolution" of those cells into diverse life forms is scientifically STUPID!
There is no mechanism DEMONSTRATING such such cause and effect.
EVERY one of those references contain such phrases of scientific certainty as "likely", "perhaps", "probably", "may", and "could have".
They don't "KNOW" any of this!
There is also a significant amount of peer backslapping, substituting as scientific "proof".
Explain why.
I'd like to ask all of you evolutionist to do a little experiment...investigate some of the NDE (Near Death Experience) cases. Especially the one's from little kids.
Since you don't have any problem with believing that we have evolved to get to this point...it shouldn't be a problem to listen to all the folks that have been documented to have died and came back to tell us what they saw. You can think of it as our next step in Evolution.
And if you have a problem with believing NDE's....why?
Here's a Pro & Con link on NDE's to get you started:
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/research08.html
For those of you undecided about what to believe when it comes to believing in Evolution VS Creation.
God told us how we got here...how to live our lives while we're here...where we're going when we die...through the Bible(Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth). God leaves it up to each one of you to decide what you want to believe.
...bear false witness ... ?
Witness this:
Creation out of nothing with nothing ?
Sure, why not.
Oh, really? And what do you based that likelihood on? Tea leaves? Goat entrails?
I don't know any such thing, and neither, I suspect, do you. And even if he has, Meyer himself is not exactly a neutral observer, now is he?
But then again, you are with the Brown Shirts; in one out the other.
When your "argument", such as it is, could have been lifted straight from the Code Pink playbook, you should probably take that as a sign that you're wandering off the reservation. "Brown shirts"? And what does that make you, if not an ideological clone of the left, willing to let bad science in because of how it makes you feel, rather than stand up for some sort of standards of scholarship? Touchy-feely, let's let it in regardless of how bad it is because it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside - please. Spare me.
Brown shirts, feh. Trust me - you don't want to go down that road, friend.
But this is the point is it not? Ultimately, the whole of creationism is a political movement to reestablish the dominance of evangelical Christianity as a political force in determining social policy. Otherwise, I can't see the point of it.
But, But, But ... you mean it is God's word and we don't even know when it was written? And in what order?
A little bit of "learning" just puts them deeper in the hole. I got him in #137.
I didn't. I told him that there were plenty of good explanations if he were to just get his head out of the creationists' websites.
Wow! That's a lot. Too bad there is no one around to help the kid wade through all that.
If that were true, we wouldn't have the light bulb ...
I backed up my claims with inflammatory quotes from those on your side; and you respond thusly. You may wish to recheck your feeling meter.
The Code Pink playbook doesn't permit straightforward quotes, they are to hard to twist. My point would have been just as powerful with only the quotes and without any comments from me. Always indicting. And yes, the context is easy to apprehend.
{But the creationists sit in grim silence, rolling their eyes, like Hillary during a speech by the President.)
If you really believe a human cannot be sensibly ranked above a germ...we are disconnected.
America was a christian creation country for all its' history and did quite well.
Which do you prefer?
To leave God out of it, or to keep our minds open?
You oughta know. You rely on wrong answers.
You have more in common with Hillary than "creationists" do.....
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