Posted on 10/25/2006 11:10:46 AM PDT by Blackirish
As the Republican base fragments and Christian conservatives consider a “fast” from politics, the polling data point to a mid-term Republican thumping. Less than two weeks from now, Republicans will begin their post-mortem soul searching. And as the corpses of their House and Senate majorities grow cold, so should Karl Rove’s 2006 campaign strategy.
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Is there ANY way that you can get this thread back on its topic?
I am a libertarian, and in some people's opinion mightily damned. What do I get for being a retread?
Do you know what was on the page? Perhaps it was offensive, huh?
The evidence for ID is all around you and science itself depends on and uses it; it's the order and complexity of the universe.
There are plenty of cases in the world around us where order and complexity are known to be the direct result of intelligence; but nowhere can it be shown that order and complextiy can arise with out an intelligent source, or to put it another way, where the source is known and shown to be non-intelligent. The best science can do is state that they can't tell if there was intelligence or design behind the order and complexity.
To use nature itself, like snowflake or crystal formation, as evidence that order and complexity can arise from natural or non-intelligent sources, presupposes that there was no ID behind the universe to begin with and that's what you're trying to establish. You can't assume the conclusion to prove it.
If order and complexity are not evidence for intelligence or design, then science has nothing on which it can be based and there's no reson for anyone to consider that what goes on in science labe is either intelligent or designed, either.
Sorry, but sometimes people just don't get it, or don't want to, I was being as basic as possible in order to make it easy for you to understand, if it seemed condescending, I apologize.
>>OMG, he did?
Nope. It was to me.
I didn't think he cared. (wipes tear)
I'm sorry. And I'm sorry that I got that wrong. People get banned for no identifiable reason, and that... that... whatever he is, doesn't get so much as a time-out? Amazing. Sad, but amazing.
Actually, yeah.
Perhaps it was offensive, huh?
No, nothing inappropriate for mixed company.
I think the author of this article has been smoking way too much crack. How's that for getting back to the actual topic?
This entire thread, IMO, is just a bandwidth wasting, senseless flame war, over a useless topic less than two weeks out from a VERY important election.
Thread hijacking has become disgusting and disturbing; not to mention rampant, lately.
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Are you a RETREAD? Are you confessing, right now, to being a RETREAD?
Take it up with JR. It is his forum, he can do with it as he pleases, and this was apparently his pleasure this evening.
Many thanks for getting back to the thread topic. :-)
Are confessions made under duress valid? ;)
Yep, and it starts with the solar influence. Plants make sugars via photosynthesis, and everything else eats those sugars in some fashon or other (that is a very basic description). Apparently none of that has ever occurred to Mom MD, despite all of her schooling in biology. Take it up with her.
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