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To: RussP
Man, you are one dense SOB. Whether ID was "designed" to support anything is irrelevant. What is relevant is the evidence to support it, and that is overwhelming.

There is not a single bit of testible evidence that supports ID. None. Never has been and never will be. ID is a philosophical arguement that has no material test. Moreover, the record clearly establishes ID as a disguised creationism. It's 'lying for the Lord.'

But don't take my word for it. Read what the greatest scientist of all time had to say about it -- before science had even an inkling about the amazing complexity of the simplest living cell:

I'm quite familiar with Newton's expression. I also know that his statement is entirely philosophical and is not scientific. If it is, show me where in all of Newton's works, God enters his equations. The simple fact is that Newton expressed his opinion based on his own religious belief. That hardly qualifies his expression as an endorsement of ID from a scientific perspective. Science is not in the business of thinking that if so-and-so said it, it must be true.

Only a creationist desperate for some form of validation would go back several centuries to find a personal opinon of a renowned scientist to base an arguement. The plain fact of the matter is that science doesn't care who said something, but rather if what was said was actually scientific. Quote mining does not get you far in science the way it does in social science, psychology, theology or politics. Science is a 'show me' endeavor. So far, ID has not shown anything nor produced anything. At best, it is an attempt to retrograde science back to the Dark Ages, where a simple 'godidit' was a sufficent answer to any question and if you disagreed, you suffered horribly by the powers that be.

107 posted on 03/10/2007 8:53:18 PM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30
ID is a philosophical arguement that has no material test. Moreover, the record clearly establishes ID as a disguised creationism. It's 'lying for the Lord.'


What is intelligent design?

It's the missing link between creationism and religious instruction masquerading as biology.

Bruce Bower, Science News, vol. 168 (Nos 26 & 27), 2006, p. 414.


108 posted on 03/10/2007 8:57:42 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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