Defence of Intelligent Design

Actually, it seems to me that the best example of all is the germ theory of disease and related medical fields. It seems obvious from the stories in the Gospels that the Bible teaches that seizures are caused by demons, yet when a Christian's child has a seizure, that Christian (except in very rare denominations, whose children are prone to dying from lack of medical attention) doesn't call his pastor, he calls his doctor, who has learned how to treat seizures from science, not the Bible.Or how about astronomy? Since Genesis one teaches (despite attempts by Christian translators to cover this up) that the sky is a hard dome holding up water, why do they accept astronomy's teaching that the stars are really big, burning balls of gas, many of them bigger than the sun and thousands of light years away?

ROFLOL! Bwahahahaha!That's great. Whew. Let me wipe the tears from my eyes. Can I use this tonight during the discussion after "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" DVD is shown at our "church" (village, really)? Maybe I can bring it up right after the video footage of Ken Ham doing his silly quips and one liners designed to avoid all evidence.

I'm sorry, I missed the picture of God's nose, or I would have been able to see plainly, too. Can you tell me where I can see God's nose and compare it with ours?

Just as an anecdote. A couple weeks ago some friends and I were discussing science vs. the Bible, and I asked if I could illustrate the picking and choosing to them. They said yes, and I got up and headed toward the front door. As I reached the kitchen, I threw myself back on the floor and mimicked a seizure, tongue sticking out, feet kicking the ground and everything. It was great fun.Then I rolled over, looked up, and said, "Who ya gonna call?"They all got it once I explained. They all would have called 911 had it been a real seizure. Why? So that people who have studied science could help me. All the men in the room had read the Bible many times over, and have devoted their lives to the life described in the New Testament. Yet none of them would have followed the NT course of action, which would have been to rebuke the demon that "threw me down." They would have all trusted scientists.Now, none of the men in that room had a problem with evolution, but the fact is that others who "don't want to trust science" would have called 911, too. They wouldn't have called someone who studied the Bible. They'd have called someone who had studied science.

I agree with Crashfrog, Ned. I realize that creationists (and fundamentalist Christians in general) refuse to even acknowledge any grounds for discussion other than their own worldview, but I'm for constantly reminding them that their worldview is not the only one there is, and it's rude for anyone, including them, to ignore the other person's way of thinking as they're discussing.Well, either it's rude or they're too stupid or childish to put themselves in another's shoes, and I think it would be rude of us to just assume they're too stupid to discuss politely or sensibly.