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"Intelligent design" not science: Vatican paper
Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 01/19/06 | Tom Heneghan

Posted on 01/19/2006 1:33:32 PM PST by peyton randolph

PARIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has restated its support for evolution with an article praising a U.S. court decision that rejects the "intelligent design" theory as non-scientific.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said that teaching intelligent design -- which argues that life is so complex that it needed a supernatural creator -- alongside Darwin's theory of evolution would only cause confusion...

A court in the state of Pennsylvania last month barred a school from teaching intelligent design (ID), a blow to Christian conservatives who want it to be taught in biology classes along with the Darwinism they oppose.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: catholic; creationisminadress; dover; fsm; id; idiocy; idisjunkscience; ignoranceisstrength; science; vatican
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To: furball4paws
"comic relief - we need it. Not many bites, though.

The post perhaps lacked teeth?

261 posted on 01/19/2006 6:17:02 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: furball4paws
"Spoken like a true colonial"

Jealousy will get you nowhere.

262 posted on 01/19/2006 6:18:27 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: furball4paws
"Bond girls are at least delicious to look at ;)"

Placing my gaze on them is quite satisfying but I can think of many other of my body parts that would like to be on them.

Nits are rather small pathetic little animals that exist simply to be picked on/at.

263 posted on 01/19/2006 6:21:46 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Are we drooling yet?


264 posted on 01/19/2006 6:23:02 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: xmission

Why is your pic not showing up in my browser?


265 posted on 01/19/2006 6:24:02 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: b_sharp

not sure. I had to right click, and choose show picture to get it to show sometimes. I'm really calling it a night now (g).


266 posted on 01/19/2006 6:25:20 PM PST by xmission
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To: wyattearp
1. Best Bond Girl - The ones at the beginning that we never get to see with the lights on.

Darn frustrating isn't it?

267 posted on 01/19/2006 6:26:00 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: xmission

Chat with you later.


268 posted on 01/19/2006 6:26:48 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: Antonello; Right Wing Professor
I'm sorry, but I just cannot seem to read that in any way that sounds sarcastic.

Do you always run around half-cocked?

Try using the "View Replies" button next time, because my second post, the one that I was referring to as being sarcastic, said that "ID is faith-based science, much like global warming."

I deliberately chose the phrase "faith-based science" because it is an oxymoron that I find humorous. Plus, belief in global-warming definitely is faith-based science because people who believe in it believe it fervently and religiously without need of proof because there isn't any, only compuer models that can't even predict today's climate when you feed data from the last hundred years into them.

The real purpose of the global warming hoax is to allow socialists to implement global socialist policies that they would never get people to accept otherwise.

269 posted on 01/19/2006 6:38:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: Antonello
What it does sound like is someone who accidentally conveyed a true thought without realizing that it exposed an ulterior motive that they would have preferred to keep hidden. And then, of course, tried to cover it up by claiming that it was just a joke.

A useful expedient in dealing with a rebuff by the opposite sex :-)

270 posted on 01/19/2006 6:41:52 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
For such an ostentiously intelligent person, you sure are dim.

It appears you mean either 'ostensibly' or 'ostentatiously'. Or perhaps this is some other form of sarcasm my intelligence is too inadequate to detect?

271 posted on 01/19/2006 6:48:06 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
You caught me! My fingers mis-typed two letters in "ostentatiously."

Doesn't change the fact that you didn't catch the irony in the phrase "faith-based science."

272 posted on 01/19/2006 6:57:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
You caught me! My fingers mis-typed two letters in "ostentatiously."

Doesn't change the fact that you didn't catch the irony in the phrase "faith-based science."

273 posted on 01/19/2006 6:57:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Uh-huh. Irony, that's it.


274 posted on 01/19/2006 7:00:53 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: b_sharp

Correct. We have not observed macro evolution. And the Vatican doesn't clarify their statements as to whether they support macro evolution or are just acknowledging micro evolution which is what evo's hide behind.

The whole evolution matter is a waste of time and energy. Evolution will not save a person from rotting in hell. Only faith in Jesus Christ can prevent that. That is what is important.


275 posted on 01/19/2006 7:19:25 PM PST by plain talk
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To: b_sharp

Correct. We have not observed macro evolution. And the Vatican doesn't clarify their statements as to whether they support macro evolution or are just acknowledging micro evolution which is what evo's hide behind.

The whole evolution matter is a waste of time and energy. Evolution will not save a person from rotting in hell. Only faith in Jesus Christ can prevent that. That is what is important.


276 posted on 01/19/2006 7:19:42 PM PST by plain talk
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To: b_sharp

Correct. We have not observed macro evolution. And the Vatican doesn't clarify their statements as to whether they support macro evolution or are just acknowledging micro evolution which is what evo's hide behind.

The whole evolution matter is a waste of time and energy. Evolution will not save a person from rotting in hell. Only faith in Jesus Christ can prevent that. That is what is important.


277 posted on 01/19/2006 7:19:51 PM PST by plain talk
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To: b_sharp

Correct. We have not observed macro evolution. And the Vatican doesn't clarify their statements as to whether they support macro evolution or are just acknowledging micro evolution which is what evo's hide behind.

The whole evolution matter is a waste of time and energy. Evolution will not save a person from rotting in hell. Only faith in Jesus Christ can prevent that. That is what is important.


278 posted on 01/19/2006 7:20:39 PM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk
We have not observed macro evolution.

What do you believe would be an example of "macro evolution"? Give a hypothetical example.
279 posted on 01/19/2006 8:32:40 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: jcb8199

Your preaching to the choir....


280 posted on 01/19/2006 9:00:37 PM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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