Posted on 03/13/2007 12:35:30 PM PDT by truthfinder9
Intelligent Design Scientists Will Showcase Evidence Challenging Evolution at Knoxville Conference
KNOXVILLE – What is intelligent design and what scientific evidence supports it? Why is it so controversial? How does it differ from Darwin’s theory of evolution? Is there a purpose to the universe? What new scientific facts are turning evolutionary theories upside down? This one-day conference will answer these and other intriguing questions.
The emerging scientific theory of intelligent design is a hot topic at universities and research institutions around the world, and is now the focus of a day-long conference called Darwin vs. Design, coming to the Knoxville Convention Center on March 24th.
Join The New York Times bestselling author Lee Strobel and a panel of scientists and experts at the Darwin vs. Design Conference as they explain the evidence for Darwin’s theory of evolution and the emerging scientific theory of intelligent design Saturday, March 24th.
Featured speakers include:
-Lee Strobel, journalist and bestselling author of The Case for a Creator.
-Dr. Stephen Meyer, Director, Center for Science and Culture (CSC) at Discovery Institute, and co-editor of Darwinism, Design, and Public Education
-Dr. Michael Behe, Lehigh University biochemist and author of the bestselling book Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, and CSC senior fellow
-Dr. Jay Richards, co-author of The Privileged Planet, and CSC senior fellow
Attendees will interact with intelligent design scientists and philosophers whose discoveries in cosmology, biology, physics, and DNA present astonishing scientific evidence that is overturning the evolutionary thinking of the past. Conference goers will hear firsthand the astounding implications these discoveries are having on our society, our politics and our culture.
The conference is $55 for General Admission and $5 for Students and teachers (with valid school ID at time of admission). Advance purchase group rates are also available by contacting conferences@discovery.org. Purchase tickets online at www.ticketweb.com (use key word Darwin). For more information visit our website at www.darwinvsdesign.com.
What amazes me is how similar evolutionists and Socialists really are. Both want to be able to define their own narrow set of "facts" as the "only" truth, and then rule everything else out of bounds. Likewise, both groups rely on "facts" which, if freely discussed, would probably be rejected by the majority of thinking people. In many ways, your average Darwinist is like your average Social Democrat.
They were lucky to get together in the first place?
Please ping me if you do.
In other words, there are people of Christian faith who believe in God but also accept the reality of science.
So try not to alienate those of faith who are on your side. :-)
The problem is the people who believe ID as a scientific concept, and not a philosophical one. As a science, ID is noncorporeal.
What's funny is this whole type of discussion is that creationists aren't even "rejecting science", they are rejecting bad science passed off as received truth - something that evolutionists argue that religion does.
Let's face it - there are quite a number of conceptual and evidential reasons to question just about every tenet of evolutionary theory. Some of these reasons might end up being good reasons, and some might not. The problem is not the invalidity of arguments made by creationists (well, except for that whole "geocentricity" thing). The problem is that evolutionists point-blank refuse to allow their theory to be challenged scientifically. To "prove" their theory, they come up with any number of circularly-reasoned arguments based off of their own theories that they then USE to suggest that they've proven their theories. When someone DOES challenge, instead of responding like the mature adults that degrees in science might suggest them to be, they instead act like spoiled five-year olds who are told that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
What amazes me is how creationists can claim that the theory of evolution is responsible for everything from socialism to capitalism to dandruff.
"Evolution provides the scientific orthodoxy for the philosophies of Marxism, fascism, racism, apartheid and unbridled capitalism."See Answers in Genesis
Evolution is a theory, ID is merely a hypothesis
I must concur.
Nevertheless, remember you have allies in many people of faith. The official positions of the bulk of Christendom believe in God AND an old earth.
Sorry NucSub, I am using "evolution" in the broad-based sense that includes all of those areas, not just biological evolution.
There’s a brain-stretcher. ID is noncoporeal. In other words, this idea doesn’t have a physical body.
Whod’a thunk?
There’s a brain-stretcher. ID is noncoporeal. In other words, this idea doesn’t have a physical body.
Whod’a thunk?
So you eat the cake they serve. Enjoy it.
When you learn to formulate sentences in English, feel free to let me know.
The demise of the theory of evolution has been imminent for 175 years now. It seems to be surviving the predictions rather well.
Attempts to silence dissent will encourage others to examine the evidence and reveal the truth.
Strange. Nobody seems to be "silencing the dissent" in Knoxville -- or anywhere else IDers can be found pushing their wares. And nobody I'm aware of is stopping the Discovery Institute from doing actual research.
Could it be that others already have "examined the evidence" for ID and found it wanting?
Sorry about the typo, I saw it as I already punched "post". But I figured some shallow person would point it out to me. Thanks
"The straw man is that you cannot believe in the Christian God ID concept unless you believe the Earth is 10,000 years old and the Bible is 100% fact."
Bullinger did some interesting research interpreting the scriptures regarding this, and shows how an earth much older than 10,000 years is consistent with what the scriptures say. Many have misinterpreted the scriptures in believing the earth is only 10,000 years old. Also explained are dinosaurs, etc.
See Genesis 1:1,1:2, in PDF format:
http://www.companionbiblecondensed.com/
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