Some help from Creationists

Age: early 40s
State: A midwestern US state
Married.
Education: Ph.D. , physics.
Religious affiliation: Catholic.
Occupation: applied physicist/industry.Position: Essentially theistic evolution.I see the universe as implementing an optimization algorithm constructed by God to cause sentient life to evolve. Humans are one realization of this; there may be others in the universe. What Cathollicism calls the soul I see as a certain level of sentience which entails moral awareness and responsibility.I find the "intelligent design" theory of Dembski/Behe technically weak in that it contains errors and misuses of information theory, with which I am somewhat familiar through my work. Unfortunately these errors are well-concealed and not obvious to someone without graduate level training in applied mathematics, so they seem to be gaining some traction.I find the young Earth position completely untenable and contraindicated by the physical evidence.So, among Catholics, I guess I agree more with Teilhard de Chardin than Micheal Behe.

I'm not interested in talking about politics, at least until the moderation standards improve in those forums. I'd be happy to talk about science with you however.

Guidelines were not broken by you or holmes. They were blatantly broken by other individuals. In any case I'm not interested in dicussing politics. Now was there a science topic you wanted to discuss ?

Methinks you overestimate your prowess If everyone in the political forums conducted themselves as you and holmes do, I might reconsider. However, I have no interest in a kindergarten sandbox environment. Branding one's opponents as "stupid", or worse, instead of engaging their arguments, is not the mark of an intellectual. I'd enjoy it.