Posted on 01/21/2006 10:37:25 AM PST by DouglasKC
Interesting post. I'm sitting back in my fire retardant PJs, waiting for the sparks to fly!
Hi Dave,
Can you activate your ping list...thanks!
"What I found very interesting in the article was the discussion on "information"
Yes, yes. It reminds me of what I always say to hubby (who sort of gloats when he knows something I don't, even some mere factual thing, not a big secret): You can't withhold pure information!
Also the part about just one thing being out of wack will cause hemophilia. This reminds me of something a friend told me. her coworker had vertigo and was suffering muchly from it, she sympathized with him, saying something like: it's so mind boggling when our bodies aren't working correctly and he replied: it's actually mind boggling when they do!
So, thanks for posting this. I hope I got my reply to you before the unavoidable crevo melee is in full swing!
Truly! One of the most complex machines that we'll ever see and think how miraculous it is that it works efficiently 99% of the time.
I think they can and do. The rough consensus is that man and other creatures were created by an intelligence superior to man's and that it didn't come about by accident. This covers the gamut from young earthers to genetic alteration by aliens (or whatever).
It's Paleyism, and it's not gaining ground
If you can judge by the number of crevo threads today compared to 5 years ago then I would say it's definitely gaining ground.
Clearly ID is being talked about and discussed more than it ever has been. I'm sure we could do a survey and find that out. Something doesn't grow in popularity unless it's gaining more adherants.
If ID is supposed to be a religious doctrine, which religion does it support or is it associated with?
According to the Discovery Institute, which is the leading proponent of ID, the point of ID is to promote an idea of science, "consonant with Christian and theistic convictions" and to, "affirm the reality of God".
Then surely you can tell me what religion it supports. The Baptist Church? Methodists??
The DI casts a wide net, lots of money to be had from the credulous. Suffice to say, they readily admit to a Christian religious foundation.
Yet that is just the opinion of those people. VIrtually all religions in the world have some kind of creation account. ID in and of itself, would not favor one over the other. ID is not inherently Christian in nature; it only postulates a creator/designer, something common to all religions.
ID is an exciting new scientific theory.
>What I found very interesting in the article was the discussion on "information".
So do I.
Without efficient and effective transmission of the messages at the molecular level, a system fails to be.
Very interesting.
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