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Let's restore civility to the debate on evolution and intelligent design
Washington Examiner ^ | 11/13/2009 | Casey Luskin

Posted on 11/14/2009 8:48:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: RussP

What is the ID hypothesis and what is the experiment?


61 posted on 11/18/2009 6:23:54 PM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: Just mythoughts
I sure do not hear the Darwinists/evolutionists complaining about BamaKennedy using that scientific methodology to enforce his philosophy/theology called health care.

That's because actuary isn't science. The fallacy is the assumption that anything that involves math is "scientific". You will have to find some other way to conflate science with liberalism.

62 posted on 11/18/2009 6:34:29 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: HospiceNurse

You claim to be a Christian but don’t believe that an intelligent God designed life? This doesn’t make any sense.


63 posted on 11/18/2009 7:17:09 PM PST by Tramonto (Live Free of Die)
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To: HospiceNurse

“What is the ID hypothesis and what is the experiment?”

OK, if you want to play that game, let me turn it back on you again. Remember, *you* are the one who said that SETI has a hypothesis and is testing it. So I ask you:

What is the SETI hypothesis and what is the experiment? What is the “experiment” to determine if a signal from space originated from intelligent life?

I’m trying to get you to think, but you are not cooperating. If you think about it, you will realize that the answer for ID is in principle very similar to the answer for ID. Not exactly the same, but similar.


64 posted on 11/18/2009 8:02:40 PM PST by RussP
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To: Tramonto; HospiceNurse

I don’t get it either. If you believe in that God created the universe and life, then what is “science” but the study of the Creation? Yet HospiceNurse and many others apparently believe that absolutely no trace of design can be determined by “scientific” methods.

I realize that some very accomplished scientists hold that view, but it has always baffled me. A common view of Catholics, for example, is that the Neo-Darwinian ToE is absolutely, completely true — but it was God’s way of creating life. But the ToE specifically rules out the need for *any* design whatsoever. The ToE says, basically, that you are welcome to believe in a Designer if you wish, but it is really nothing but a fantasy. Sorry, but it’s more than a fantasy.


65 posted on 11/18/2009 9:51:33 PM PST by RussP
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To: tacticalogic
That's because actuary isn't science. The fallacy is the assumption that anything that involves math is "scientific". You will have to find some other way to conflate science with liberalism.

No the deception is that evolution is 'science', rather than science fiction. The system of the scientific methodology is like a computer program that gives a computer its brain. That 'scientific methodology' is liberalism in action. If generation after generation of young minds are taught they are animals then do not be surprised to observe base animal instincts become the norm from the top down, or the bottom up. Why do evolutionists think their science is just about biology and a family tree?

66 posted on 11/18/2009 10:46:39 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: RussP
Yet HospiceNurse and many others apparently believe that absolutely no trace of design can be determined by “scientific” methods.

I believe that God created everything and used evolution to create us. You will note that ID proponents NEVER offerscientific support for ID and yet they claim it is scientific.

67 posted on 11/19/2009 12:43:23 AM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: Just mythoughts
No the deception is that evolution is 'science', rather than science fiction.

You'll have to do better than simply saying "the scientific method is liberalism" over and over again to make that case.

68 posted on 11/19/2009 3:36:23 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
You'll have to do better than simply saying "the scientific method is liberalism" over and over again to make that case.

I will attempt to and I will use that computer analogy to do so. But I know going out the gate of my explanation that you and I are using different programs. The computer was designed to store, use collect, etc., data using specific programs to function. Liberalism is a program by design to follow established knowns about human nature.

Evolution or the story of only fits within the established knowns of human nature. The designers by their very bold and proud statements says they cannot account for or 'test' things they cannot see. NOT that these things do not exist but they can't account or manipulate evidence in the world outside of their naked flesh eyes.

BUT as liberalism is about the programming of a system that requires the individual which literally exists to no longer exist as the individual. BamaKennedy and his bunch will point to the 'spirit' of their programs, but even BamaKennedy told that gal that he nor his experts did not have the ability to 'test' the 'spirit' of a person's will to live, thus, advisers would be needed to determine if an old American grandma would get a 'pill instead of a procedure', because of her age.

Now the majority of Americans are so steeped and immersed into the 'spirit' of the methodology they are willing turning over to liberalism what the Heavenly Father gave each individual when He created their soul/spirit. Evolution ignores who is in charge and who is going to be visiting face to face with each and every one of those individual souls/spirit yet future.

69 posted on 11/19/2009 7:48:46 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: HospiceNurse
I believe that God created everything and used evolution to create us. You will note that ID proponents NEVER offerscientific support for ID and yet they claim it is scientific.

Ok, it seems you believe in Intelligent Design and that it responsible for life on earth. Your position is that Intelligent Design is true but not scientific. So why the hostility towards those you agree with? Why bash something you believe to be true?

70 posted on 11/19/2009 8:31:40 AM PST by Tramonto (Live Free of Die)
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To: SeekAndFind
Once the rhetoric is toned down, perhaps we can have a real discussion about the evidence and find out which side’s skepticism is most convincing in this intriguing debate.

Except that creationists have no interest in evidence. Otherwise they wouldn't have to lie and continually mislead their readers.

This is a transparent marketing ploy to sell more literature.

71 posted on 11/19/2009 8:44:29 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Just mythoughts
The computer was designed to store, use collect, etc., data using specific programs to function. Liberalism is a program by design to follow established knowns about human nature.

Among the "established knowns" about human nature is that it resists and eventually rebels agains socialism. It is demonstrated over and over again in history. Socialism is a perfectly good, workable system - for ants and bees. They are all identical clones, so the survival of the individual is irrelevant. People are different, and socialism just plain doesn't work for people and human nature.

I think your argument is flawed because the premise is invalid.

72 posted on 11/19/2009 8:45:42 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Tramonto
Your position is that Intelligent Design is true but not scientific.

That IS NOT my position. Intelligent design is not supposed to reference a deity. I do not believe that biological systems were "designed" at all. I know there is no scientific basis for thinking design is involved. If there was, some ID proponent would have offered it.

73 posted on 11/19/2009 11:56:12 AM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: HospiceNurse
That IS NOT my position. Intelligent design is not supposed to reference a deity. I do not believe that biological systems were "designed" at all. I know there is no scientific basis for thinking design is involved. If there was, some ID proponent would have offered it.

You stated that God created everything. You also wrote that biological systems were not designed at all. So, you believe that God created biological systems but didn't design them at all? How is this possible? Wouldn't God Who created everything qualify as an intelligent Designer?

Like most devout followers of darwin who also claim to be followers of Christ, your position on evolution and ID doesn't add up. Its illogical to believe that God created everything but designed nothing.

74 posted on 11/19/2009 5:04:06 PM PST by Tramonto (Live Free or Die)
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To: HospiceNurse; Tramonto

You’re putting us on, right? Do you honestly believe that no one has offered any evidence of ID? Well, let me offer you some very strong evidence right now.

We don’t have a clue about how the first (or any) living cell came to be. Not only that, but mathematicians have shown that it is extremely unlikely to have happened by random chance. Furthermore, experiments intended to demonstrate that a living cell could have formed by random chance have completely failed.

Yet ID deniers insist, against all mathematical analysis and experimental results, that the first living cell formed by random chance. Forget for now that their claim is “unfalsifiable” and therefore “unscientific,” according to their own arguments against ID. When pressed, they claim that, given the age and size of the universe, “anything can happen.” But they do not understand combinatorics. If every cubic yard of the universe was filled monkeys typing randomly for 100 times the age of the universe, they would still be extremely unlikely to type the first page of Macbeth correctly.

If you saw the words “Hey, you ID deniers are bozos” written on the sands of a beach, would you claim that it got there due to random winds, with no intelligent design? Of course not. Why? Because common sense says that it could not have happened by random chance. The same reasoning applies a billion times more to the simplest living cell, which is perhaps more complex than all of man’s technology.

Quit parroting nonsense about ID, and start thinking for yourself.


75 posted on 11/19/2009 6:00:41 PM PST by RussP
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To: Tramonto
So, you believe that God created biological systems but didn't design them at all?

Yes

76 posted on 11/20/2009 10:11:47 PM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: RussP
We don’t have a clue about how the first (or any) living cell came to be. Not only that, but mathematicians have shown that it is extremely unlikely to have happened by random chance

If you understood the subject at all, you would see that these two sentences are mutually exclusive.

77 posted on 11/20/2009 10:14:27 PM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: HospiceNurse

Can you explain this to me? It seems like an intelligent God Who intentionally created life would have had to design it. I guess if you believed that God guided evolution you might not consider it to be ‘design’ but it still would be. Using a process to design life would still be design. If you believe that life came about randomly, then God didn’t do it and Christianity is false.


78 posted on 11/20/2009 11:47:40 PM PST by Tramonto (Live Free or Die)
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To: Tramonto

God “designed” the laws of the Universe and set it in motion. Life evolved naturally based on those laws. That is why biology is so sloppy. A perfect God would have designed perfect life based on a perfect design concept. Our biology is a design mess.


79 posted on 11/21/2009 2:21:49 AM PST by HospiceNurse
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To: HospiceNurse

It’s a figure of speech. I could have worded it more precisely, but if that is all you can find wrong with my post, we’re making progress.


80 posted on 11/21/2009 12:04:04 PM PST by RussP
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