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To: bondserv
So what exactly is ID trying to discover, and what lines of research would you suggest to achieve these discoveries? What kind of experiments would you like to see done?


1,373 posted on 03/06/2003 12:24:14 AM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
Hello js1138,

So what exactly is ID trying to discover, and what lines of research would you suggest to achieve these discoveries? What kind of experiments would you like to see done?

I will repost a short analogy that will let you know what our position is.

(Two men become stranded on a remote island. As they explore the island they come upon a sandcastle with towers, buttresses and a drawbridge. The design of the castle is amazingly intricate.

One man comments, "It is amazing what time and the ocean can create. The small rocks and seashells on the shore must have got caught in eddies and swirled around and chiseled out that castle. There were a few palm leaves floating by to scribed out the little lines that look like bricks. We are alone and there is no need to consider anything else."

The other man looked at him incredulously and said, "No, that castle was engineered by another intelligent being, we are not alone.")

If you consider a spider, it has oil glands in its legs that enable it to navigate its sticky web. The web is sticky which enables other bugs to become trapped in the web. It becomes a stretch to think that a spider developed oil glands for another purpose first, and then it developed stickiness to its web. Or vice versa.

There are so many of these types of these "fine-tuned developments" that when one considers the mathematical probabilities of all of the biological "just so happens" it becomes absurd.

In short, we believe the evidence already gathered absolutely points to a Creator. As in the above analogy, the atheist strains to take the available possibilities to support his position.

But the intricacy of the design makes the atheists efforts countless. Therefore we are completely confident that any discoveries, by whoever feels compelled to do the research, can only further convince people that there is a God. Only the truly stubborn have and will continue to strive and stretch the evidence to explain away the Creator.

Thank you for your interest. Hope this helps. I am also curious what you think might refute this.

1,429 posted on 03/06/2003 3:22:50 PM PST by bondserv
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