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To: GodGunsGuts

I am sure that the fact that the Cambrian explosion started 530 million years ago and lasted for 70 to 80 million years get in the way of their little movie

Real scientists publish papers for peer review, not release fictions films.

GGG you do realize that Al Gore, and Michael Moore also made movies, I guess that means that they knew what they were talking about too?

Must be true because I saw on the silver screen.

“Easily the biggest challenge facing the ID community is to develop a full-fledged theory of biological design. We don’t have such a theory right now, and that’s a problem. Without a theory, it’s very hard to know where to direct your research focus. Right now, we’ve got a bag of powerful intuitions, and a handful of notions such as ‘irreducible complexity’ and ‘specified complexity’-but, as yet, no general theory of biological design.” ~ Paul Nelson Fellow Discovery Institute Touchstone Magazine 7/8 (2004): pp 64 – 65.

“The important thing about Intelligent Design is that it is not a theory - which is something I think they need to make more clear” ~ Michael Medved Senior Fellow Discovery Institute.


22 posted on 08/26/2009 8:49:47 PM PDT by Ira_Louvin (Go tell them people lost in sin, They need not fear the works of men.)
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To: Ira_Louvin

Context, context, context... much like real estate’ location paradigm, the film makers are catering to a proscribed demographic. Facts are irrelevant.


23 posted on 08/26/2009 9:07:33 PM PDT by FormerRep
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To: Ira_Louvin
For the further edification of all, I'll show all of Medved’s statement:

“One on One: Broadcast views
Aug. 6, 2008
Ruthie Blum Leibowitz , THE JERUSALEM POST

Q. Speaking of your desire for this kind of particularity, you are a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute that studies and believes in Intelligent Design. How do you, as an Orthodox Jew, reconcile with this kind of generality - with the view of their being a hierarchy with a chief “designer” - while believing in and praying to a very specific God?

A. The important thing about Intelligent Design is that it is not a theory - which is something I think they need to make more clear. Nor is Intelligent Design an explanation. Intelligent Design is a challenge. It's a challenge to evolution. It does not replace evolution with something else.

Q. The question is not whether it replaces evolution, but whether it replaces God.

A. No, you see, Intelligent Design doesn't tell you what is true; it tells you what is not true. It tells you that it cannot be that this whole process was random.”

I added the Qs and As for clarity.

Is there a difference between making films and writing books? Scientists write books too but, of course there's no fiction in them, no, never, no?

24 posted on 08/26/2009 9:35:20 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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