Intelligent Design Is Creationism in a Cheap Tuxedo

Physics Today ^ | July 1, 2002 | Adrian L. Melott

[Junior]

Either update the damned thing to account for all the stuff you've learned since 1995 (assuming anything has made its way into your brain) or quit spamming each and every thread with this outdated crap, bat boy.

[Dimensio]

But Cosmology has had a few changes along the way. It will likely have some more.

Such is the nature of science, changing when new data contradicts old theories. That's markedly different from another concept that I won't mention...

[laredo44]

But atheists don't have a good answer for where the original atoms came from either

And you do?

[Dimensio]

Get yourself a copy of "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"...

No, Ted, that would be an impractical misapplication of the theory of evolution. The request was for a practical application.

[Question_Assumptions]

Show me the list of Bible-Thumpers who advanced science. I agree there were many scientists who were Christian, very few that placed their religion before science though.

Johannes Keppler probably put his religion first (he was looking for evidence of God in the workings of the cosmos). Gregor Mendel was a monk, which probably qualifies, too. I'm sure people can find other examples. The religious scientist seeks to find God in the works of nature while the atheist seeks to find any explanation other than God. Neither is necessarily taking a more "scientific" approach since both assume what they seek to find (the presence or absence of God).

[kinsman redeemer]

Love is an action not a feeling or chemical reaction in the brain.

[kinsman redeemer]

...and oh, by the way:

Christian first ===>> Kinsman Redeemer <<==== scientist second

[gdani]

Given the multiple links you provide to creationist sites, you obviously believe that the universe was created in 6 days, that woman was created from man's rib, that the earth is only about 6,000 years old, that dinosaurs existed in biblical times and that all human life descended from Adam & Eve.

I eagerly await the proof for these "scientific" theories. In the meantime, thanks for the Jack Chick link - always a hoot!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Theists would say that God didn't "come from" anywhere.

Then why should atoms have come from anywhere?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Aspiring to write for ER?

[Dimensio]

Love is an action not a feeling or chemical reaction in the brain.

Love is an "action" when used in such a context. English words can and often do have multiple meanings.

In any case, if it is an action then it can be tangibly demonstrated through some method. Either show someone in the "action" of love or, if it is akin to "thinking", show the brain activity that occurs during that action.

Since my comments were directed at someone trying to create an analogy with "God", are you suggesting that "God" is actually an action? People can go about "Godding" in some manner?

[medved]

Atheism is the abscence of belief in gods.

That really isn't right. Atheism is the belief that there are no gods.

[Dimensio]

Heh...I thought that Ted was a catastrophist. Did he change his mind for some reason?

[jtw99]

Show me the list of Bible-Thumpers who advanced science. I agree there were many scientists who were Christian, very few that placed their religion before science though.

Sir Isaac Newton springs to mind.....

[Doctor Stochastic]

As the first to gratuitously inject Nazism, you automatically lose (Godwin's Law.)

[laredo44]

Theists would say that God didn't "come from" anywhere.

What does that mean?

[Tribune7]

History has shown, a scientist’s success at adding knowledge to his particular field of endeavor, is inversely proportional to his religious fanaticism.

Issac Newton, by all accounts, was a full-blown religious fanatic. As was arguably Pascal.

Copernicus and Mendel were Catholic clerics -- both putting religion ahead of science.

[TightSqueeze]

Christian first ===>> Kinsman Redeemer <<==== scientist second

WTF, Is this a complex theory of ID, or are you attempting to display that for you, Christianity is a greater factor than being a scientist? If my second guess is true, believe me I understand,

[general_re]

Newton was a heretic who denied the divinity of Christ, and felt that the trinity was a deliberate attempt to pervert Christian doctrine. FYI ;)