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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. "
I predict that this story will have 1833 comments before the it leaves the front page.
Either spelling is good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor
"The rest of Bush-voters are the dumb mid-west sunday school peasants who can only count to two (that many barrels in their shotguns). They simply succumb to Dumbya (more precisely the jews who hold his puppet-strings). The middle or America is still in the middle ages if you evaluate based on what you find in the heads. They would be burning witches if it were not against the FBI." There's some intelligent discourse, oh wait, I am a Midwestern hick and am not supposed to be able to use words with multiple syllables
Has evolution ever passed a Turing test?
I am trolling
I did not choose randomly.
I chose a God of love, who reached down and touched me several times in my life to put me where I am now.
Through my life, there have been several times where I should have been dead. For one, I grew up in Detroit, and when I say "in Detroit" I mean "IN DETROIT" not in a bordering city. I lived in a neighborhood that 911 did not respond to!
Evolution didn't protect me there. It wasn't some g-nome that I inherited from my parents. Of the 10 friends I grew up with, only 3 of us are alive today, and one is in jail. Call it natural selection, population control, dumb luck, or God. I choose God.
Science can't explain why when I fell 15 feet from a tire swing, shatering my 5th vertebre, and the doctor said I would never walk again, I did so just 4 hours later!! Science takes thousands, God takes seconds.
No theory can explain why I grew up with a hole in my esophogus for close to 15 years, with air, spit, and food sitting directly on my heart, and after the operation (of which I had less than 1% chance of survival by science) there was no infection.
There have been NO other religions who's god has healed, spoken, touched, or send a Son by divine appointment to die on a cross. There are no other gods who CAN be proven by archeology, history, and yes, even science (logic, ratios, and probability). There is NO other god who uses LOVE to interact with his people.
Muhamid thought he was possessed by a demon when he heard from ALAH (alah means "the god" and is one of over 150 gods that were worshiped at the time, contradition?), and was left in cold sweats, seasures, and even thought he was going mad, he almost threw himself off a cliff! Even if you believe in alah, science will claim old Muhamid couldn't have expeirenced this event.
Christians aren't "competing" for who created the world. If it were, we'd miss the point. Instead, ask why we were created.
God IS Love, He wants to give, and recieve love. He had the angels, but they were "programed" to worship God. He created us with a free will, so we would WANT to worship Him.
I want to worship Him because He touched me, healed me, LOVES me, and I continually hear from Him. There is NO science that can explain what has happened to me, but there IS scritpture, and above that, experience.
If you grew up a painter, you became a painter because your family taught it to you, but that doesn't mean you should stay a painter. If you have an experience with sculpting, and thought that it's the way to go, you would switch. Not because your defiant, but because you had a real experience that touched a nerve.
quote "when whispering the chant to god produces the same result in all religions and languages, then I'll believe religion is on the same level as science. until then, its just hocus-pocus meant to impress and control primitive man."
I don't chant, I'm not Catholic. I have a personal relationship with Jesus. If you and I were friends, and all I did was "chant" to you the same prayer, over and over and over and over and over... you get the picture. I hope. Instead, I speak to Jesus, just like I'm speaking here. I thank Him for what he's done in my life, for saving me, healing me, LOVING me. Then we chat. Again, if we were friends, we would start our conversation getting each other up to speed since the last time we spoke, it's the same in prayer.
Hocus-pocus won't impress any true seeker of God. I can't perform a miracle to entertain you. But if you need prayer and a miriacle in your body/spirit, or even finances, I can pray with you to find God. To let HIM show YOU he exists.
No one can change your mind, but you, that's how we work. Signs and wonders are nothing unless it impacts your life. As a painter, you can tell me all day long how awesome of a paint job you finished, but until I see it and experience the awe, it's just a testimony. It doesn't make it any less of a paint job. You had a personal attachment with the job, not me. But I can take part of that experience when YOU lead me to the place of completion.
God (the creator, lover, friend, father) is that place of completion.
Sorry this is so long, and by the way, I love science!
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