[USConstitutionBuff]

Among the 40 to 45 members of the Muslim Student Association, intelligent-design "hasn't been a topic of great debate," said Youssef Chouhoud, the group's president and a political science student.

As a Muslim, "I'm glad to have somebody standing against evolution," Chouhoud said. "That, I'm proud of.'

[Coyoteman]

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[betty boop]

"Frankly, just from a humanities point of view, it's considered good to challenge the conventional wisdom. It's inherently respectable."

Indeed. If we don't question what we believe we know, then how do we learn anything new? I honestly don't understand the rationale for the science faculty's behavior at Lehigh. They act as if Behe were promoting child molestation or wife beating....

Thanks for the post, Diamond!

[Sloth]

that put him squarely on the map in favor of an anti-evolution concept known as intelligent design

A lie. ID is not anti-evolution.

[DoctorMichael]

"........Among the 40 to 45 members of the Muslim Student Association, intelligent-design "hasn't been a topic of great debate," said Youssef Chouhoud, the group's president and a political science student. As a Muslim, "I'm glad to have somebody standing against evolution," Chouhoud said. "That, I'm proud of.' ......."

Muslims and ID/Creationists are not the same.

However, there is a confluence here between the interests and goals of Muslims and ID/Creationists: They both share the same Fear and Loathing of Western Society and its Institutions and fervently wish to destroy it. First though, they must destroy those in the Conservative Movement and discredit Conservative websites such as FreeRepublic by posting their crap here.

[Right Wing Professor]

As a Muslim, "I'm glad to have somebody standing against evolution," Chouhoud said. "That, I'm proud of.'

Nice lot of friends you have.

[sr4402]

Quite frankly, Evolution is going to get more harder to justify each year IMHO. As we find out more and more about the intricacies of life itself and at the molecular level the theory that we all came into being just by chance is going to get harder and harder to maintain. It is like trying to plug a leak in a crumbling seawall dam.

If evolution was correct, we should have been making life from the basic elements long ago. No life is more complex than we think and it's locks and rules are often much harder and more complex than we think to pick.

[norton]

As usual; I'm only in and out of this absurd thread, however:

"an anti-evolution concept known as intelligent design..."

Is inaccurate, overly defensive, and quite illuminating.

ID does not say 'there is no evolution'.
It says 'Darwin's theory of origins (and variations) of (and between) species does not manage to explain the origins of life'.

What really, really, disturbs me is that 'science' seems on the verge of jumping off a cliff in order to 'discover' what actually did (per them) generate life...
...anyone for outer space seedlings?
...primordial glop with a lightening booster?
...gamma rays and one lonely but willing carbon based mutant?
...whatever...