Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary students of William Dembski's "Intelligent Design" course/s, welcome.
http://www.designinference.com/teaching/teaching.htm
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AP410 ... (3) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you've made on "hostile" websites, the posts totalling 2,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
AP510 ...(4) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you've made on "hostile" websites, the posts totalling 3,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
Please post your "Defending ID" posts on this thread: I believe we qualify.
We are generally "hostile" to all kinds of stupidity and ignorance, to misrepresentations of reality, and to avoiding the evidence of reality all around us, but well reasoned arguments are welcome.
If you think you have a valid argument please feel free to share it, but be warned - known PRATTs will be ridiculed - and be prepared to defend your position rather than just state it.
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TalkOrigins PRATT List and
Arguments (ie PRATTS) we (AiG) think creationists should no use
A PRATT is a
Point
Refuted a
Thousand
Times ... or in other words it is an argument as silly as trying to defend the concept that the earth is flat.
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ps - note that I am a Deist - we invented Intelligent Design - and it is my personal opinion that teaching ID can open a student to considering the many possibilities of science, to understanding the scientific method and how science is actually done, both in the field and in the lab, and the difference between science and philosophy.
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