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A further, delicious irony in all of these quibbles about the relative merits of Intelligent Design comes in the fact that conservative proponents of ID may have borrowed their tactics directly from the left.

The Discovery Institute, the promoter of ID, is no different than the Sierra Club or Greenpeace. It's a "non-profit", bringing in serious cash to push a specific agenda for true believers. None of them give a rat's behind about truth, because that wouldn't fit their agenda, or bring in money from the believers.

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You've been pung.

[Dumb_Ox]

The Discovery Institute, the promoter of ID, is no different than the Sierra Club or Greenpeace. It's a "non-profit", bringing in serious cash to push a specific agenda for true believers. None of them give a rat's behind about truth, because that wouldn't fit their agenda, or bring in money from the believers.

So what does that say about FR? :)

Any IDer who supports an "intelligently designed economy" run by putatively omniscent, omnicompetent men would likely realize his idolatry sooner or later.

[js1138]

The Discovery Institute, the promoter of ID, is no different than the Sierra Club or Greenpeace...

Back in the early 70s I read an article by Noam Chomsky ridiculing the idea that human language could be the product of evolution. At the time I had no knowledge of Chomsky's politics. I wrote him off as a sophisticated creationist.

It's interesting to examine the parallels between ID and socialism. On one hand you have people who deny that undirected events can produce use biological features, and on the other hand you have people who deny that an undirected economy can produce wealth.