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To: GSlob; truthfinder9

"The court decision [available online] addresses your point in great detail - there are not many scientists thinking ID is a science, and those few who might are dubious scientists."

It will take time for more scientists to come around, because of decades of hearing only one side, but here are 700 free thinkers:

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Czech_Intelligent_Design.html
Monday, October 24, 2005
'Intelligent design' supporters gather
By ONDREJ HEJMA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Hundreds of supporters of "intelligent design" theory gathered in Prague in the first such conference in eastern Europe, but Czech scholars boycotted the event insisting it had no scientific credence.

About 700 scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States attended Saturday's "Darwin and Design" conference to press their contention that evolution cannot fully explain the origins of life or the emergence of highly complex species.

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157 posted on 12/20/2005 7:25:12 PM PST by Sun (Hillary Clinton is pro-ILLEGAL immigration. Don't let her fool you. She has a D- /F immigr. rating.)
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To: Sun

There are scientists and there are kooks. They normally differ.


158 posted on 12/20/2005 7:29:30 PM PST by GSlob
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To: Sun
From my blog.

Bogus conference for bogus science

As discussed on the inestimable Panda's Thumb, Bruce Chapman in yesterday's New York Times claimed a recent European conference on intelligent design - held in Prague and ignored by The Times - attracted 700 attendees, and featured leading scientists from Britain, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as well as the United States.

We have no way of independently verifying who or how many attended, but the conference schedule is on line, and it featured a measly five speakers - four of them old antievolution hacks of long standing - over one day. The conference registration was a little over $20 -- too much to pay for rubbish, you might say, but it included coffee and lunch. The web page looks like it was put together by a computer science student on a wet Saturday morning. There was a booth where they sold the standard antievolution tracts translated into Czech, and that's it. If this is an international conference, my group meeting is an international conference.

This is the web page for the FEBS/IUBMB conference in nearby Budapest in July. Compare and contrast.

BTW, seminary teacher William Dembski, erstwhile luminary of the ID movement, banned me from his uncommon dissent blog for merely mentioning the size of this conference. I guess they're embarrassed it was so tiny.

159 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:00 PM PST by Right Wing Professor (Liberals have hijacked science for long enough. Now it's our turn -- Tom Bethell)
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