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To: Fester Chugabrew
"Galileo . . . was prone to sharply criticize unsubstantiated statements and theories unsupported by observation."

Huh, how heineous. I guess that would make him, what? A scientist?

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Carl J. Wenning, Coordinator
Physics Teacher Education Program
Illinois State University

Oh, well, there's an authoratative source.

Today it's Behe's publications that shock the sensibilities of public education. The Darwinian approach to understanding how the universe ticks is on the wane.

Except, of course, amongst a small minority of the population called scientists.

Wonder what Galileo would think of those who assert that man is the culmination of wholly natural processes lacking either intelligence or design.

I wonder, apropos to the quote above, what Galileo would think of people who cling to marginal pseudo-scientific theories like ID "unsupported by observation" in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary that convinces hundreds of thousands of working scientists totally immersed in the philosophy of intensely critical observation.

838 posted on 05/26/2005 12:41:38 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
. . . what Galileo would think of people who cling to marginal pseudo-scientific theories like ID "unsupported by observation" . . .

Oh, the observations are there alright. The evidence is just as stong, if not stronger, for intelligent design. It amuses me in a queer way to hear an intelligently designed being tell me there is no such thing as intelligent design involved is his existence. Galileo would be rolling his eyes. The proponents of ID are the modern day Galileos, and this time folks like you are on the side of ignorance.

844 posted on 05/26/2005 12:55:09 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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