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To: GodGunsGuts

You are the one linking what the bible may have to say about science to ID. Again, if design was to provide the most robust theory of origin for something like a cell, how does that prove anything about the bible or the biblical god?

The fossil record, on its own, would not prove anything about evolution. It would suggest it as a possibility, certainly, but until Darwin and Wallace came up with a mechanism, the idea of evolution wasn’t taken seriously. Similarly, Alfred Wegener based his theory of continental drift on evidence from the shape of the continents, the distribution of fossils and mountain ranges and so on, but his ideas were not accepted because there was no plausible mechanism that would cause continents to move. Not until the discovery of seafloor spreading fifty years later was the idea of plate tectonics fleshed out and very quickly accepted.

As to Pitman’s site, I read the page you suggested, so my comment is restricted to the content you linked as relevant. Is there new important stuff on other parts of the site?


46 posted on 06/23/2007 3:48:03 PM PDT by Youngblood
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To: Youngblood

==Is there new important stuff on other parts of the site?

That all depends on what you already know. I would start with his article on the geologic column and go from there.

http://www.detectingdesign.com/geologiccolumn.html


48 posted on 06/23/2007 3:54:25 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Youngblood
==You are the one linking what the bible may have to say about science to ID.

ID is chipping away at Darwinism, while at the same time showing evidence of design (especially at the cellular and molecular level). When you combine what they are doing with the evidence of the fossil record, the geologic column, etc...the Biblical account of creation is increasingly vindicated by science (even if I do disagree with many IDers re: the age of the earth, common descent, etc).

50 posted on 06/23/2007 4:01:38 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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