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To: jwalsh07; LibertarianInExile
Anthony Flew has been led to theism by science.

Flew was not a scientist. He may have had some fanciful interpretion of science -- misinterpretation, more likely. But the scientific method per se eschews faith as a valid means of cognition, i.e. recognising reality. I find it interesting (and revealing) that Flew AFAIK has not addressed the issue of faith in his new world-view.

Intelligeant Design proponents puzzle me. Thousands of species have gone extinct over the millennia. Entire galaxies have collided destructively. There are continually earthquakes and other natural calamities. The planet Earth evidently was designed not too intelligently. Not to mention homo sapiens with all his defects and vestigial organs.

31 posted on 12/26/2004 5:39:28 PM PST by Nicholas Conradin (If you are not disquieted by "One nation under God," try "One nation under Allah.")
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To: Nicholas Conradin
Flew was not a scientist.

Never said he was. He's a philosopher with a keen interest in science, specifically the origin of life.

You certainly don't mean to say that only scientists can be led somewhere through science, do you?

I believe in creation but if you were able to create matter, time and space ex nihilo in the lab, I'd have to seriously reconsider my beliefs.

33 posted on 12/26/2004 5:46:32 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Nicholas Conradin
Intelligeant Design proponents puzzle me.

Your lack of a spell checker puzzles me.

If you are going to use scientific methodology, do so.

Formulate explicit predictions and do what you can to test them under controlled conditions.

55 posted on 12/26/2004 9:42:17 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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