[metmom]

I don’t know, I’ve yet to see a single contribution by Creationists and ID people to science. What have those people done to strengthen American economy? Have they developed a single drug? Have they built a shuttle? Have they managed to produce a single scientific breakthrough? The answer is an emphatic No.

Sources? I'd be interested to know how you know the belief system of every scientist who's made any contribution to science in the last few years.

BTW, welcome to FR.

[Zombie Lincoln]

>”Sources?”

Exactly. There are no sources because there are no material contributions by ID people to recent scientific body of knowledge. All they do is to insult Christianity by taking allegorical parts of the bible and using them to attack our grandest Western achievements - namely the scientific theory.

The scientific theory itself is a product of our Christian past, as some people already pointed out. And it is not mutually exclusive with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

A Christian scientist who endorses the scientific theory is not in the same league with a proponent of Intelligent Design. There is a distinction that’s lost on many people. ID is comparable to Astrology or Scientology insofar as the claims go. Even the Catholic Church rejects ID on grounds that it’s too ridiculous to be taught as science. ID and Creationism harm Christianity because they promote lifefless, bloodless deism which is worse than atheism.

BTW, welcome to FR as well.