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  • Deny the Designer, Save "Science"

    01/22/2006 10:08:10 PM PST · by Para-Ord.45 · 83 replies · 1,359+ views
    http://www.spectator.org ^ | 1/23/2006 12:06:59 AM | P. David Hornik
    People who celebrated Judge John Jones's recent ruling that Intelligent Design is a "religious view" and "not science," so that it is "unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution," are satisfied because religion and science have been kept strictly apart, which suits their worldview. It amounts, though, to begging the question that is at stake, and "winning" the argument by sheer force. Before explaining why, it's worth noting that science is being defined flexibly. If someone says -- "The fossil record does not actually indicate that species evolved into other species, and evidence of the necessary transitional species...