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Author Topic:   What is the benefit of ID.
Dr Adequate
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Message 4 of 42 (502166)
03-10-2009 5:52 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Peg
03-10-2009 5:27 AM


im not an ID proponent, although I do believe in creation as opposed to evolution and personally i cant see the benefit of evolution in science...what does it do for us really? How does evolution help us?
This is, of course, off-topic, but here are some examples.
As far as i can tell, ID is simply the acknowledgment of purposeful design in nature. I dont understand why scientists & evolutionists are so threatened by this proposal.
This is, of course, off-topic. However, the reason that they are "threatened" (to use your quaint jargon) by creationist garbage is the same reason that they are "threatened" by the proposition that the earth is flat.
Because it's crap.
And, as 72 Nobel Prize winning scientists testified in Edwards v. Aguillard :
It sets up a false conflict between science and religion, misleads our youth about the nature of scientific inquiry, and thereby compromises our ability to respond to the problems of an increasingly technological world. Our capacity to cope with problems of food production, health care, and even national defense will be jeopardized if we deliberately strip our citizens of the power to distinguish between the phenomena of nature and supernatural articles of faith.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 34 of 42 (502567)
03-12-2009 11:02 AM
Reply to: Message 30 by Peg
03-12-2009 8:35 AM


Re: The Benefit of ID
Everything in your post is off-topic.
However, I cannot quite contain my curiosity on this subject:
You know there was a time when geologists were finding Ice Ages at every stage of the geological time table, but in our century, with a better understanding of things, geologists realized that there were not as many ice ages as previously thought. In fact the earlier geologists were reading the 'evidence' incorrectly.
Can you direct me to anything confirming this claim in any way?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 35 of 42 (502568)
03-12-2009 11:04 AM
Reply to: Message 31 by Peg
03-12-2009 8:39 AM


Re: The Benefit of ID
how do they act?
They add to the usual dishonesty of creationists by pretending not to be creationists.
ps. i dont think we have ID people here in australia...
You guys don't have a First Amendment for creationists to try to weasel their way round.

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