Intelligent deign is not science, and God, I can't write. (699 hits)
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Submitted by RockDocc (View user info) at 2006-01-04 21:44:59 EST
Intelligent design.
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20060104p2g00m0in006000c.html
Once again, evolution and sound thinking has triumphed over religious zealots and the mighty American Christian right.
Intelligent design, the brain child of The Discovery Institute, (www.discovery.org) was thought to be the newest and most lethal threat to the Theory of Evolution. Seemingly unstoppable in it's uncanny ability to defeat many of Evolution's basic principles, and to declare that somewhere, there must have been a "designer" (ahem...Christian god) that had a hand in this mess we call the Universe. They pointed out evolution's Thermodynamic flaws, evolution's inability to explain some of the simplest organisms, and the so-called gaps in the fossil record.
Pretty easy to defeat evolution then, isn't it?
Not exactly, evolution is a theory, and as a theory, evolution is constantly being tested. Tested to disprove it, tested to find flaws, tested just to see if it's rules are really just that, rules. Evolution, and science in general ask questions, they don't provide all the answers, but they give us the motive to seek answers out. Evolution states that all of life descends from a single celled organism. Okay, how? What gave this organism life? If one were to simply say God, or Aliens, or hell, Bob from Accounting, gave that organism life, then the debate stops. The question has supposedly been answered, and it is simply "Hey, we don't exactly know, but we think maybe God did it, or an alien...I dunno"
That's not science, giving up and saying that god did it, will do nothing more than halt discovery. Intelligent Design runs against the entire scientific method itself. Intelligent design is not science because it does not ask questions, it does not use deductive reasoning, it merely says "Oh, Chuck Norris created life as we know it, we don't need to research it any more"
While Chuck Norris would be pissed if some geek in a lab coat said otherwise, questions need to be asked, or we'll never get our answers. There's a gap in the fossil record? We'll find the rest of them, Evolution goes against the Second Law of Thermodynamics? With the advent of quantum technology, and our growing knowledge of the quantum world, we'll see what's really going on. God must exist because there's a book written about him? There was a movie about Luke Skywalker, did he really exist?
My point, people, is that science can not provide the answers to everything, but that doesn't mean that it should just stop at that. "We don't know, ask God" is not the way to answer any question, and god help us the day we believe it can.
User Reviews
Submitted by ooQueso (user info) at 2006-01-06 13:46:29 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Keep evolving, buddy. You suck. Do you honestly think you're going to change anyone's minds about anything with that crap?
Submitted by rockdocc (user info) at 2006-01-05 22:25:40 EST (#)
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I'd like to say it's the navy's fault that I'm constantly drinking, but let's face the truth....it's Bush's fault.
That fucker.
I need another jack
Submitted by Thanatos (user info) at 2006-01-05 13:09:41 EST (#)
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Wow. You really can't write. I'll admit some of my posts wander, and don't make complete sense, but this one tops anything I've seen.
It is like stream of conciousness for an alcoholic.
Submitted by Grimm (user info) at 2006-01-05 12:45:44 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Spuds002 (user info) at 2006-01-05 01:24:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by Spuds002 (user info) at 2006-01-05 01:23:36 EST (#)
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wow. cause this is a freash topic i have never seen ever before in my life.
homo
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2006-01-05 01:08:00 EST (#)
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This deserves a VERY negative rating. This was SO last year.
Submitted by MisterMojoRisin (user info) at 2006-01-04 23:40:51 EST (#)
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Despite the fact that this has been over done, to death and back again, I don't think this deserves a negative rating.
Submitted by rockdocc (user info) at 2006-01-04 23:28:26 EST (#)
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oye, where?
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-01-04 23:21:01 EST (#)
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you cant spell either
Submitted by rockdocc (user info) at 2006-01-04 23:18:43 EST (#)
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I can take that.
Submitted by Dante_Alighieri (user info) at 2006-01-04 23:06:18 EST (#)
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Solid 0. Religion posts are tired; Both sides make the same points over and over and over and over and over. And over.
Submitted by Despiadado (user info) at 2006-01-04 21:55:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2006-01-04 21:55:23 EST (#)
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That school board just recently voted in unanimous fashion to remove Intelligent Design from the classrooms.
Submitted by rockdocc (user info) at 2006-01-04 21:54:37 EST (#)
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Let scientists teach science, and leave politics and religion out of it.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-01-04 21:47:00 EST (#)
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I saw someplace that the school district that was ruled against teaching ID might appeal. Bear in mind this school district is in the heart of Amish country.