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Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science"
blane.bramble writes "The Register is reporting that the UK government has stated there is no place in the science curriculum for Intelligent Design and that it can not be taught as science. 'The Government is aware that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and elsewhere as to whether creationism and intelligent design have a place in science lessons. The Government is clear that creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programs of study and should not be taught as science.'"
I really can't wait for the end of the world, mankind doesn't deserve to live
Pretty insightful, it's a shame I don't have mod points. ..Though I think the worst that can be said about the literal read types involves a clue stick, rather than knowing all there is to know.
Technology tips and tricks.
Isn't evolution *also* pretty much just a theory at this point, like Intelligent Design?
Intelligent design isn't free thinking, it's free of it.
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Thank God for that!
No, wait...
So.. it has come to this
Oh Lord. Don't look at those sinners in the United Kingdom.
Enjoy looking at us in the US, please?
We love you so much we do everything in your name.
Come to church friends and lets pray for less WMD and more enforcement of DMCA.
So God will get so much love from us that he can ignore that hate from the UK.
George W Bush will tell us how much God loves our prayers and how desperate we try to look better in churches than the rest of the world with all our singing and praying.
The Ministry further clarified that teachers planning to cover climate change were not permitted to substitute "An Inconvenient Truth" with "Evan Almighty".
... how do you explain the fact that your finger is exactly the right diameter for sticking up your nose?
Fire ruled "Not cold."
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is not going to be happy to hear about this!
Both ID and evolution are theories, or they wouldn't have the words "The theory of" before them. I think it's important to remember that the best either camp (scientists and theologians) can offer are just theories, both with their own supporting evidences. It's sad, though, that kids can't be taught both (that is, taught an ID where the goal is to show the probability of some greater power, not necessarily any religion's god) and then be left alone to make up their own minds about which they will choose to believe. Because, when it all boils down to it, you have to have faith in something, be it science or religion. The fact is that some of those who vehemently flame ID have just as much (or more) faith in the current scientific paradigm (see: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn) compared to their religious counterparts.
Church leaders around the world have called for the shee^h^h^h^h Christians to shun all science. Their exact words are "Shun all science, it is of the Devil Satan. He is controlling the minds of the evil Atheists. We must fight this evel now! Kill all those who oppose us!" All people believing in such superstitions are now agreeing with their religious leaders in the call to eliminate all that believe in the so-called "evil science" They were immediately confronted by Freethinkers and the worldwide killing spree was brought to a halt before it ever began.
"Since you believe all science is evil, get rid of your weapons since they are made through science. By the way; all the food you enjoy, the beverages you drink, the water you need, the clothes you wear today, the transportation you use, and the computers you use were all created through science. Are all you religious sheep going to kill yourselves through dehydration and go without clothing as eveything is created through science?" was a phrase created by a collaberation of two Freethinkers, Bill Gates and Linus Tovalds. This phrase was repeated by all freethinkers around the world.
This caused all people from all religions to looke into it and agreed and found out their respective bibles were really created with science. Word have it quite a few people of all religions became Freethinkers that day and the rest decided to commmit suicide from all of the madness.
From the mysterious future.
This just in, the worldwide crime rate, subtance abuse, and poverty is at an all time low. It is now near zero. With no religion in the world today the world is now enjoying peace and prosperity until all life comes to an end on the Earth. A major breakthrough in the cure for cancer has revealed all diseases can and will be cured since there is nothing blocking the research. Microsoft has finally agreed to open their source code and all of their file formats since their is no need for money. Alternative energy sources such as solar and wind will be in full implementation by the end of the week.
Let the Kids decide
They are clinically stupid
Travelling forward in time at a rate of 1 second per second.
That's beautiful. If you don't mind, I'd like to use that line. I'll try to remember to give you credit, SatanicPuppy.
I used to date a stuck-up girl who was ineffable, too. I finally gave up and eff'ed her friend.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Would you say the system evolves into a better political position?
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Ah, stupid design!
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Are you very certain that you can tell the difference between a "decision" and a "reaction"? Remember, human beings have developed a keen ability to fool themselves in this regard. But it IS the same!
Hivemind harvest in progress..
Bush-appointed official government scientists have declared Intelligent Design as science and designated Evolution theory as a belief often held by terrorists. Just kidding. I think.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Where I get tripped over ID is that when *I* am Intelligently Designing something, such as a software module, there is a process of evolution going on in my head. I start out with the basic idea, do a first try, step back and look at it, make adaptations and enhancements, evaluate it in a test environment, refine it some more, plug it into a larger module and test that out, fix some stuff I forgot to deal with, rewrite the whole thing from scratch a couple times, try out the alternatives, pick one and go with that, do some performance tuning, roll it out to QA and customers, make staged changes based on feedback, roll those out, then maybe go work on another software module with the same process.
So even if ID is true, it's still evolution, it's just moving the venue from "stuff happening on earth" to "stuff happening in supreme space alien's brain".
"Creationism isn't science because you can't replicate it in a laboratory."
:-). I agree with you 100%.
I have been having that problem with black holes too. You happen to know anyone with an enormous quantity of superdense matter for sale? Ideally someone local to Los Angeles - courier charges for something that heavy would bankrupt me.
Just poking fun
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So, you're saying this god entity is a programmer? He/She/It sure left a lot of bugs! *swats another fly*
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
The belief in a creator god cracks me up:
Who created HIM?
No one, he always existed.
Then why can't we say that the universe always existed?
'Cause I'm not smart enough.
Or, to sum it up in a diagram: http://wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007 -01-15%20--%20science%20vs%20faith.html
look! it's a bird, it's a plane, it's....a girl? yes, a girl browsing Slashdot on Linux
Dunno about your's, but my dog wants to be a human.
I've never been confident enough in my observational abilities to discern what a chicken, pig, or frog wants to be, but if I had to guess, I bet it does not want to be dinner. Which is almost the very definition of pig and chicken and in some countries frog.
On these grounds, I respectfully disagree.
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Hey, show me some examples of *ANY* abiogenesis, lab created or any other type and I will lend some credence to your 'science'.
Yep. Which is exactly why chemistry was bogus 'science' back in 1900... when they couldn't create elements in the laboratory and they had absolutely no explanation for the origin of elements. Chemistry is not real science until you have nuclear fusion theory *and* you can produce elements in a laboratory. And Nuclear fusion theory is just a theory and not real science until you have quantum mechanics theory and you can create protons in the laboratory to make elements from. And quantum mechanics theory is just just a theory and not real science until I see you make a universe from scratch in a laboratory.
Yep, there's no such thing as actual science. It's all just theories, it's all hogwash 'science'. I reject anything and everything is so-called 'science, until I see you make a universe from scratch in a laboratory, including that electron theory electricity mumbo-jumbo. I reject anything and everything, except for my particular literalist interpretation of the Bible (well, except for the parts that *I* pick and choose as obviously figurative, but the rest, that is all literal and the Earth does *not* move around the sun, because some parts *I* say are literal clearly say that the earth doesn't move).
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