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The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design
Mime Narrator writes "An article over at Kuro5hin discusses the controvery over the Intelligent Design movement. The Dover, Pennsylvania school board recently adopted a policy requiring that high school science teachers teaching evolution tell their students that evolutionary theory, a theory that has been shown to explain the origins of life time and time again, is flawed, and that intelligent design is a valid alternative. The ACLU, along with the AUSCS (Americans United for the Separation of Church and State), and 11 parents, are suing the school board, accusing the board of violating the separation of church and state. "
What next? "Serious Doubts About Pyramid Schemes"? "Scientist Uses Paper to Wipe Ass"?
No intelligent designer or engineer would put a waste pipe across a recreation area.
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Just so long as I'm equally entitled to conjecture that the Bible was placed here by Satan to test our faith in him (the true Lord).Don't think they should have a problem with that, do you?
Honestly, just what is the deal with these fundamentalists? I have two issues with these people.
:-)
Only 2?!
Oh, I forgot. It's Monday. You must be pressed for time.
Everyone knows that the world was created ~4000 years ago in 6 days, complete with dinosaur fossils thrown in to mix up the heathens advocating the theory of evolution. Anyone claiming otherwise is jeopardising his/her immortal soul and will be chained to a computer running Windows(TM) with no friendly Microsoft tech support to explain the shortcomings of the hardware that causes the BSOD's...
Do not look into the laser with remaining eye.
He knew the gullible bint was going to eat the apple. He never had any intention of letting mankind stay in the Garden of Eden. He just wanted to be able to say "Gotcha!".
D.
Conclusion 1: Everything that is intricate and complicated must have a designer.
Conclusion 2: Conclusion 1 indicates that the universe requires a designer.
Conclusion 3: God is that designer.
(Western) Conclusion 4: This designer is the God as described in the Holy Bible.
Psst...you forgot one:
Conclusion 5: Profit!!!!
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
It's like first day of a college course and the professor singles out someone to speak their mind about a subject and let them embarrass themselves in front of the class...
Oh wait, this is /.
Would that be an alternative to /. ?
Gotta love HTML 3.2...
Wow, an intellignt post on this matter. Did you come over here from K5?
If you understood everything there was to know about printing, binding and reproducing books, that knowledge and understanding still wouldn't tell you anything about how to write a good one.
Well, you could at least write a definitive book on the subject of publishing.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color.
Please accept that those of us who like the idea and hypothesis of ID are not low-IQ neanderthals but are in fact intelligent human beings.
Hmmm, a reference to "neanderthals" in the same paragraph that defends ID over evolution? Interesting.
Don't tell that to Schrodinger and his cat.
All you're proving to me is that you weren't paying attention in spelling class...
.. but the decision is the Lord's alone. "
and the lamb shall lie down next to the lion.
...but the lamb won't get much sleep.
/ w/apologies to woody allen
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If I'm wrong about God I goto hell.
If I'm wrong about evolution I gotta listen to people whine about it on slashdot.
I'm not sure which sucks more.
Sorry, I was watching "Desperate Housewives". What was that again?
IDium
IDius
IDiot
Hey, IDiot,
Idiot, Hmmmm, "They all, believe in Intelligent Design" -- "Idiot"
So thats where that term comes from!
I know its kinda trollish, and I'm going to hell and such, Oh wait, the very fact that this discussion still plagues the school system suggests that we are already there, so I guess I have nothing to worry about....
Replace "faith" with "stupidity" and you will be right on.
Lay out for me some experiment I can do in which one of the possible outcomes disproves the existance of God
Simple: God is love, and is perfect, and created man in his image?
Therefore, diarrhea proves that God doesn't exist: Q.e.d.
You can't take the sky from me...
That is what you all say, but you people never substantiate that claim, and when you try, you fail.
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Well, if you are the judge of who is and who isn't smart enough for your little atheist party, who would be able to convince you?
Never heard of him, so he is not that well known.
Then you haven't take any Philosophy classes, nor have you read anything substantial by atheists. He is well-known, and I find it comical that you believe you are the decider of who is well-known and who isn't. Can I decide who is well-known now?
He is 81 years old
Hmm, didn't realize an appeal to age is an actual logical argument.
The first thing I noted on the URL you supplied, is that Gerald pretends to know Quantum Physics. As a quantum physicist, I was not duped.
Ahh, the elitism is staggering.
Your argument with Dr. Schroeder's credentials isn't with me or Dr. Schroeder's himself. Your beef is with MIT for having the gall to let him teach Nuclear Physics in their university for seven years--and for awarding him a Ph.D. in said field.
You should contact that fly-by-night institutution post-haste to let them know of their mistake! After all, you are a quantum physicist!
Signed,
Notoriously bad judge of people...
Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.
Their bible has Expansion Packs.
Actually, it mostly just opens the door for a whole host of other questions, one of the most damning being "why would God seek to mislead us, so, unless he's a fucking asshole?" Seriously, if you don't want your kids to do something wrong, do you then seek to tempt them to do it just so you can say "hahahaha, you're grounded! woo! bet you didn't see that coming!"
All I know is that when eternity comes around and God dies, he's gonna have a lot of explaining to do to his God. And if God's God is just, God is gonna rot in his God's hell. Which is gonna suck, because an eternity of eternities is a long time. I mean face it, your God is a psychopathic jokester who brings out the worst in people.
The Theory Of UnIntelligent Design (THUID) is a scientific alternative to the discreditted theory of "evolution".
THUID postulates that the development of intelligent life on earth cannot have occurred by blind chance, but only by the direct intervention of an Outside Direct Designer (codenamed "ODD"). This ODD being discloses its very nature in the details of the human structure.
For example, would an intelligent Designer include the appendix - an organ whose sole function is to burst, causing inconvenience and painful death?
What of dental caries: a phenomenon unknown before the development of human intelligence, yet almost inevitable when our human desire for sweets is coupled to the brainpower that ensures a steady, unhealthy supply?
And let us not even BEGIN to talk about the humorous side of human reproduction ...
Please support this SCIENTIFIC study as it battles the twin unscientific principles of EVOLUTION and of INTELLIGENT DESIGN.
Our School Children Must Learn The Truth!
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When I went to high school, the girls were NOT built like they are today.
Evolution HAS to be right.
"Oh! I hadn't thought of that!" said God, and disappeared in a puff of logic.
Then man went on to prove that black is white and got himself killed by a bus while crossing the street.
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Well, there's the Book of Esther, where the queen is killed for refusing to show off her hotness for the king's buddies.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
This weekend I watched an amazing PBS series, "Evolution". I would higly reccomend it to anyone interested in this topic, regardless of where you stand on the issue. It catches you up to date on all of the current research and scientific evidence.
One of the segments was entitled "What about God?" which included a segment about a leading creationist Ken Ham. One of the absurd things he told his audience was, "If someone tells you millions of years ago, respond to them by saying 'Were you there?'"
So I looked up this guy, and he is building a CREATIONIST MUSEUM!!!!!! It is somewhere in Kentucky, and they are installing the exhibits right now. I seriously thought this was a joke when I looked at the virtual tour.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/
I fully agree - if students were actually exposed to ID, it would do more damage to religous fundamentalism then an army of scientists talking evolution