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Evolution Debate creates monster [Flying Spaghetti monster, to be exact]
Lawrence Journal-World ^ | August 24, 2005 | Scott Rothschild

Posted on 08/24/2005 6:51:49 AM PDT by Quick1

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To: wideawake
Again, ID does not postulate divine intervention.

Then what *does* it postulate?

141 posted on 08/24/2005 10:29:09 AM PDT by blowfish
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To: Modernman

I wasn't talking to you, but you did miss the point. Then you went off on some tangent that ignored what I was actually addressing to someone else.


142 posted on 08/24/2005 10:31:03 AM PDT by John Scopes (Just the facts, not the speculation.)
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To: Little Ray
Hmm. Flying Spaghetti Monster. Mi-go? Yog-Sothoth?

Look at this.

143 posted on 08/24/2005 10:32:21 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Modernman; All

ROFL!!!

This thread is a hoot! :-)


144 posted on 08/24/2005 10:33:49 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: John Scopes
I wasn't talking to you, but you did miss the point.

Um, you're posting on a public forum. That means you're talking to everyone here.

Then you went off on some tangent that ignored what I was actually addressing to someone else.

No, it didn't ignore what you adressed. It just mocked your statement.

145 posted on 08/24/2005 10:34:37 AM PDT by Modernman ("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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To: John Scopes

I am not a fan of NS, but if you post a response to a 100 ago post without any references, don't expect people to treat you better than a meatball without sauce.


DK


146 posted on 08/24/2005 10:34:42 AM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Lurking Libertarian

I loved reading Algernon Blackwood, August Derleth, and H.P. Lovecraft when I was a kid. :-)


147 posted on 08/24/2005 10:36:02 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: blowfish
Then what *does* it postulate?

IOt postulates an intelligence which designed life.

It does not say that this intelligence:

(1) Created matter and energy from nothing

(2) Is omniscient, or even much smarter than we are

(3) Is omnipotent

(4) Is immortal, or even still alive

(5) Is a spiritual, as opposed to a material, being.

Yet all these qualities are normally associated with divinity.

148 posted on 08/24/2005 10:36:06 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

But it is still not science.


149 posted on 08/24/2005 10:37:21 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer
But it is still not science.

So you say. However, it fits all standard criteria for science, regardless.

150 posted on 08/24/2005 10:39:52 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Modernman

Okay, then at least have a clue when you reply to a post not addressed to you.


151 posted on 08/24/2005 10:40:03 AM PDT by John Scopes (Just the facts, not the speculation.)
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To: wideawake
So ID merely says 'someone designed life', without postulating *anything* about the mechanisms or entities involved? No physics? No chemistry?
And you want to pass this off as science?
...shakes head in disbelief...
152 posted on 08/24/2005 10:41:10 AM PDT by blowfish
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To: wideawake

Divinity takes away from the true discussion. How can you discuss divinity and the origins of life when divinity doesn't have a yolk? It's not even a true egg religion!

Go back to a true noodle. I would suggest Rotini, but everyone on this thread knows my calling. Can you even imagine divinity in the great collander? Nothing would remain.

DK

You forgot omnipresent.


153 posted on 08/24/2005 10:46:06 AM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: John Scopes
Okay, then at least have a clue when you reply to a post not addressed to you.

Quick1 wrote in #32 (and not to you, BTW):

When was Intelligent Design elevated to the level of Theory? It has no testable, falsifiable hypothesis.

You responded in #136:

You're not clever, not funny, not even original...just another follower of the 1960's attack the underpinnings of our law and culture movement.

Considering just how much of a non-sequitur your comment was, I don't think you have much of leg to stand on when you tell others to "at least have a clue when you reply to a post not addressed to you."

154 posted on 08/24/2005 10:48:41 AM PDT by Modernman ("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
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To: RadioAstronomer

And it is not pasta either.

DK


155 posted on 08/24/2005 10:49:54 AM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Modernman

No, you blew it again. You just took a guess and responded without a clue to a post not addressed to you, just a bum guess. Must have struck a nerve for you to have such a jerkey knee all ready to react.


156 posted on 08/24/2005 10:51:48 AM PDT by John Scopes (Just the facts, not the speculation.)
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To: Dark Knight

Bless me Flying Spagetti Monster, for I have sinned. Often have I consorted with Angel Hair Pasta. I have soaked it with thy holy sauce, mixed it with thy holy lamb and pork, and adorned it with thy chantrelles and morels (the latter first dehydrated, then reconstituted in cream and wine).


157 posted on 08/24/2005 10:52:59 AM PDT by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: blowfish
So ID merely says 'someone designed life', without postulating *anything* about the mechanisms or entities involved?

Amusing subterfuge.

If ID postulates a divinity, you claim it is not science. If ID does not postulate divinity, you claim it is not science.

Evolution begins with minimal assumptions as well - is it also not science?

No physics? No chemistry? And you want to pass this off as science?

Evolution, as postulated by darwin, began without the slightest clue as to how traits were transmitted. No mechanism was provided. Yet I would doubt that you would deny evolution as "science" at that time, despite its shortcomings in that regard.

...shakes head in disbelief...

How quaint.

158 posted on 08/24/2005 10:55:21 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Vaquero

(Evolution=Fact)

Evolution = 150-year old uproven theory


159 posted on 08/24/2005 10:56:54 AM PDT by Tim Long
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To: Tim Long
Evolution = 150-year old uproven theory WRONG!!!! http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html
160 posted on 08/24/2005 10:59:34 AM PDT by Vaquero (lets all play " The Crusades")
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