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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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 Posted - 08/11/2005 : 15:48:36 [Permalink]
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Oh, I see.
God is a turn off to the young so they present the package to young impressionable minds without using the "G" word, until they are sucked in and then WHAM easy pickings.
This is the Religious Rights way of getting some street cred.
But don't they risk going to you-know -where by denying their god even a little bit.
Are you saying that these people are the pointy end of fundamentalist literalist movements?
Where do they sit on the continuum(sp?)?
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"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."
Bob Dylan
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2005 : 16:00:45 [Permalink]
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Ok...
In what way, then, does ID succeed as a philosophy? What does it do?
Just because you can call almost anything a philosophy doesn't really mean that it is one. Like the silly beer philosophy, ID has merely been labeled such.
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Not all legit philosphies are legit sciences.
No. But all sciences have legit philosophy. All legit philosophies contribute something, provide some insight or guidance.
What insights does ID provide that don't rely on already falsified empirical claims?
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/11/2005 : 16:02:05 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dry_vby
Oh, I see.
God is a turn off to the young so they present the package to young impressionable minds without using the "G" word.
Actually, it was the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled the Creationists they couldn't use the G-word in science classrooms. They still burn to spread the Word, however.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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