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Hi subbie,Perhaps we should issue a challenge: “Intelligent Design Supporters Strictly Welcomed -- all you have to do is support your claims with facts and answer all rebuttals.”Perhaps we should start a new thread just for them. There are various definitions of troll in internet usagehttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/t/troll.html

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(v.) (1) To deliberately post derogatory or inflammatory comments to a community forum, chat room, newsgroup and/or a blog in order to bait other users into responding.
(2) To surf the Internet.
(3) To hang around a chat room reading the posts instead of contributing to the chat.
(n.) One who performs any of the above actions.

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Most people think of just a subset of the first, kids (usually) who try to annoy you to the point of losing it - not just bait a response but one that is angry and profane.

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Hi Bluejay, My reading of it is that the arguments they use are supposed to be their own, and the question is whether they can stand up to scrutiny and survive testing against the evidence of reality.subbie in Message 16

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I might agree if he required his students to actually engage in a debate, rather than simply hitting and running. I suppose it's possible that he makes it clear in class that engagement is required, but it's certainly not made clear in the on-line syllabus.

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I agree with subbie - if the purpose is for them to make an argument and then test it in the real world, that this would be a valid teaching tool. The test of this, though, is whether the students will be willing to admit when they are wrong.Enjoy.

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Hi again subbie, don't you find it curious that most of the grade for an ID (ID is not religion...?) course is based on religion?Why is 40% of the undergraduate grade based on

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(2) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 40% of your grade);

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The same question is asked for the "master's" program (30% of grade), plus

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(2) write a 1,500- to 2,000-word critical review of Francis Collins’s The Language of God -- for instructions, see below (20% of your grade);

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And the same two questions are again required for the "D.Min. course" adding

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(4) develop a Sunday-school lesson plan based on the book Understanding Intelligent Design (worth 20% of your grade).

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With not one (1) question about science?I can't wait to see the "final" exam for these courses.Enjoy

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