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The fight by the religious right to include intelligent design theory in the biology curriculum has been the biggest courtroom clash on evolution since the 1925 Scopes monkey trial.



Many noteable scientists who are NOT part of the "religious right" want this taught in biological curricula.

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The policy required that students be told Darwin's theory is "not a fact," and has inexplicable "gaps."



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Many members of the scientific community hold that intelligent design is invalid as a theory because it cannot be tested and offers no hypotheses.



And there are parts of darwin's theories that are also not testable. Many members of the scientific community hold ID as more plausible than strict darwinism.

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Many respected scientists have gone so far as to call it pseudoscience or junk science.



And many other respected scientists have said the same thing about darwinism. These last statements in this article are fallacious.

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I'm more upset that I wont be able to hear the pro-intelligent design people tell me that FSM is a straw man argument. :D:D:D:D:D:D



The Straw Man! Now there's a God worth worshipping.

I've seen so much of TSM around here that I know he must be real.
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Many members of the scientific community hold ID as more plausible than strict darwinism.


This baffles me. How could you be considered a "member of the scientific community" if the best you can come up with is: Fuck, I don't know. This is too complicated for me to understand, so I give up. God must have done it.

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Many members of the scientific community hold ID as more plausible than strict darwinism.


This baffles me. How could you be considered a "member of the scientific community" if the best you can come up with is: Fuck, I don't know. This is too complicated for me to understand, so I give up. God must have done it.



Umm, just as there are bad lawyers and bad architects, so there are also some incompetent scientists out there.

The universal consensus among the competent is that ID is NOT science.
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You're pretty good with google. Check out 'humor' next time you're there ;)



Sometimes one just has to spell it out, you know. Some of our readers still believe in invisible friends.:o:D
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You're pretty good with google. Check out 'humor' next time you're there ;)



Sometimes one just has to spell it out, you know. Some of our readers still believe in invisible friends.:o:D



and some of our readers will soon meet them.

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Many members of the scientific community hold ID as more plausible than strict darwinism.


This baffles me. How could you be considered a "member of the scientific community" if the best you can come up with is: Fuck, I don't know. This is too complicated for me to understand, so I give up. God must have done it.



Wow - this is the tersest, yet most complete ridicule of ID I've ever seen.

To the best of our knowledge, there aren't other rocky planets out there capable of complex life. We're hindered by resolution and by the fact that distance equals time, but all we've seen are gaseous planets. But even without seeing the planet on the visual spectrum, we should have gotten some radio waves by now. While Earth took 5B years to start sending waves out, what are the odds no other planet evolved to that point 10,000 years ago?

If Earth was created by a God, what are the odds that there's only one of them, located right here, while the rest of the galaxy is godless? Seems pretty far fetched to me. Or this god is one lazy son of a bitch. Gave a half assed effort on Mars and then retired.

As for the odds of Earth happening naturally, so what if they're small. If it didn't happen, we wouldn't be here to have this discussion. (duh) What are the odds of last week's powerball being last week's numbers? 1.

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The universal consensus among the competent is that ID is NOT science.

and neither is much of darwinist theory.



Are you meaning strict "Origin of Species" exactly as written 150 years ago, or modern evolutionary theory based on Darwin's great and inspired work and modified by our knowledge of molecular biology?

It is a transparent and failing strategy that can only confuse the ignorant to call it "Darwinist" or "Darwinism", as if it's dogma like Catholicism or Calvinism.
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