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LA Times Columnist Slams Intelligent Design as a "Ruse" and a "Ploy"
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| 30 July 2006
| Dave Pierre
Posted on 07/30/2006 12:56:40 PM PDT by infoguy
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posted on
07/30/2006 12:56:42 PM PDT
by
infoguy
To: infoguy
ID is real. Its beings used as a rused to force science to stop using the scientific method in teaching.
Good things can be used for bad pruposes.
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posted on
07/30/2006 12:58:53 PM PDT
by
gondramB
(Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
To: infoguy
This guy is one ignorant slob isn't he. Panspermia (particularly if it's a consequence of intelligent activity elsewhere in the cosmos) would be difficult to differentiate from "creation" if the only reference you had was Earth.
I'd suggest it's too early to abandon panspermia and fully embrace the "little Earth" hypothesis.
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:01:53 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(-/sarcasm)
To: infoguy
Am I the only one to think it odd that the Times would find him well qualified to write on science, medicine, and technology? Coulter is a lawyer and writes on evolution ===> Placemarker <===
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:07:13 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: infoguy
The arrogance of these people is astounding. To think that it's not possible that an entity more intelligent and powerful than they, actually put humanity on this earth, shows what most of us already know. That they truly believe they are the most highly evolved beings in the universe. But that belief should really come as no surprise to anyone.
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:09:19 PM PDT
by
TruthBeforeAll
(Christ gave and died. Mohammed took and killed.)
To: TruthBeforeAll
Do intelligent design people believe that cows could have evolved from buffalo? Or that Lions could have evolved from Tigers? Why can't evolutionists other than myself admit that Darwin was a Darwinist/Eugenicist?
"The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest
allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species,
has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is
descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear
of much weight to those who, from general reasons, believe in the
general principle of evolution. Breaks often occur in all parts of the
series, some being wide, sharp and defined, others less so in
various degrees; as between the orang and its nearest allies-
between the Tarsius and the other Lemuridae- between the elephant, and
in a more striking manner between the Ornithorhynchus or Echidna,
and all other mammals. But these breaks depend merely on the number of
related forms which have become extinct. At some future period, not
very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will
almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout
the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor
Schaaffhausen has remarked,* will no doubt be exterminated. The
break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it
will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may
hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon,
instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla."
Darwin ch 6
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/descent_of_man/chapter_06.html
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:20:20 PM PDT
by
budlt2369
(I tried to warn them about Peter Singer, but they wouldn't listen.)
To: TruthBeforeAll
I'm not sure about the arrogance, but the axiomatic beliefs
some of the naturalists hold (I think goes under their own
radar)... might be considered here.
example:
1) the universe is ordered and is predictable
2) The human mind can understand "nature"
3) Human thought and rationalizaton is the final arbiter
of what "is"
4) Scientific method always brings out the truth.
5) Mathematics is a way of describing the universe, and is
always accurate
6) What experiments we have done accounts for all of
the natural order
Anyway, needless to say anyone who "believes" all the above
will certainly behave as if they have the corner on
knowledge. One thing is approximately true, that science
does many times correct itself, through the action of humans
bringing new repeatable information to light.
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:24:59 PM PDT
by
Getready
To: infoguy
Hotz is right on the money. I see the ID kooks are out in full force today.
To: infoguy
If you want to post the LA Times try not to use it as a believable source.
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:27:43 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
To: TruthBeforeAll
Are you talking about those that support ID or those that support evolution?
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:28:11 PM PDT
by
RFC_Gal
(There is no tagline)
To: infoguy
When presented with a choice between ascribing events to conspiracy or stupidity, opt for stupidity. Conspiracies require brainpower.
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:29:11 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: infoguy
Mr. Hotz is, himself, prima facie evidence of unintelligent design...
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:30:39 PM PDT
by
esopman
(Blessings on Freepers Everywhere (and Their Most Intelligent Designer))
To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
It's a slow weekend, so ...
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:39:01 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The Enlightenment gave us individual rights, free enterprise, and the theory of evolution.)
To: Coyoteman
"Coulter is a lawyer and writes on evolution." Coulter hasn't been hired by anyone to write specifically on one topic. The point is that the Times had an opening for someone to write on specifically on science, medicine, and technology, and they chose a guy with a master's degree in theatre history. Why?
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:48:55 PM PDT
by
infoguy
(www.frankenlies.com ... www.themediareport.com ...)
To: infoguy
"Coulter hasn't been hired by anyone to write specifically on one topic. The point is that the Times had an opening for someone to write on specifically on science, medicine, and technology, and they chose a guy with a master's degree in theatre history. Why?"
Because people why act like Darwin wasn't a Darwinist need lots of practice.
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:53:27 PM PDT
by
budlt2369
(I tried to warn them about Peter Singer, but they wouldn't listen.)
To: budlt2369
"Coulter hasn't been hired by anyone to write specifically on one topic. The point is that the Times had an opening for someone to write on specifically on science, medicine, and technology, and they chose a guy with a master's degree in theatre history. Why?"
Because people who act like Darwin wasn't a Darwinist need lots of practice.
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:53:57 PM PDT
by
budlt2369
(I tried to warn them about Peter Singer, but they wouldn't listen.)
To: youthgonewild
I like Divine Design, which doesn't have anything against quantum mechanics per say,
(except that it doesn't unify gravity. Damn!...) but am more careful concerning these
developmental "gaps".
Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Prvileged Planet
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posted on
07/30/2006 1:59:37 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: muawiyah
The author comes from a group that believes the anus is a sex organ!
To: infoguy
LA Times must still believe the Hopeful Monster Theory.
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posted on
07/30/2006 2:05:09 PM PDT
by
RoadTest
(Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto: in God is our trust.)
To: TruthBeforeAll
To think that it's not possible that an entity more intelligent and powerful than they, actually put humanity on this earth, shows what most of us already know.
Who has stated that such a thing is not possible? Please provide specific quotations.
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posted on
07/30/2006 2:13:46 PM PDT
by
Dimensio
(http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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