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Starman
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Evolution News & Views - The State of Scientific Research on Intelligent Design quote:
I keep getting asked about the scientific research projects underway that relate to Darwinism and intelligent design. So why aren't we talking more about them publicly? For several good reasons:
The most important is that the Darwinist establishment would like nothing better than to "out" research programs before they are finished. The idea is to shut down damaging evidence as early as possible. Strangle the infant in the crib. Demand answers now to questions still being explored.
Paranoia? Hardly. There are too many examples of ID scientists and other scholars who have been hassled and harassed by the Darwinist Inquisition. (I include in the Inquisition those supposed science writers who long ago became propaganda agents rather than serious reporters.)
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We know of a lot that is happening, and it's exciting. As for the rest, we'll report it when it's ready, not before.
Poor persecuted ID-iots. So brave, so devoted, so ...
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H. Humbert
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Ah, but the best quote is this:
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As for foes and critics who pester us for information about research now underway and who insinuate that, unless we oblige them, we must accept their opinion that such research is not happening, we owe them nothing. Since when does a scientist have to "report" on his work to the public before he is ready?
Scientists are under no obligation to report on their work before it's ready, unless of course one has already spent millions of dollars trying to get that "work" into textbooks and classrooms. I guess in ID-Land no research actually has to be in a presentable state before you're allowed to make sweeping claims of overturning scientific paradigms. 
How these jokers are still able to dupe anyone is beyond my comprehension.
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filthy
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Posted - 10/03/2006 : 02:32:12 [Permalink]
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Research on Intelligent Design.... It's rather a contradiction in terms, isn't it?
To actually do such a study, they must first establish a designer; any designer. If such can't be found, they have nothing to base their inquery on. Thus far, the Designer seems to remain somewhere in the Realms of Rhetoric, as does the research.
C'mon fellas, put up or shut up. Whadda ya got? Where's the beef?
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Starman
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Posted - 10/03/2006 : 03:48:38 [Permalink]
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C'mon fellas, put up or shut up. Whadda ya got? Where's the beef?
Stop being such an evidenco-fascist, filthy!
You also know perfectly well that ID is not about the nature of the designer. Its not that kind of theory. I |
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JohnOAS
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Posted - 10/03/2006 : 05:04:02 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
Stop being such an evidenco-fascist, filthy!
You also know perfectly well that ID is not about the nature of the designer. Its not that kind of theory. I
Do you think Starman's post was cut off by the proverbial lightning bolt from above?
Of course the supreme being would find it funny to click "post" afterwards.
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Ricky
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pleco
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Posted - 10/03/2006 : 08:33:37 [Permalink]
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"In our lab lesson today, we will get a pile of dirt and some water and wait for it to transmogrify into something alive. We must make sure that we exclude all possibly natural causes for the transmogrification. If something happens, it must be the designer. If nothing happens, then it is because the designer didn't want it to happen."
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 10/03/2006 : 08:43:20 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Ricky
I'm curious as to what an ID lesson would look like:
"Intelligent Design is a theory which says that somewhere, at sometime, at some place, there was something, which did something to create or help create life."
After that, what the hell could you ever teach about ID that isn't a criticism of evolution?
I know, Ricky! I asked this a long time ago-- how, exactly, does one teach ID? The first few minutes would be spent saying stuff like "See this? It's irreducubly complex. It had to have had a designer." Then there'd be a few minutes of speculation. "The designer could be an alien. Or perhaps an extra-dimensional being. Or perhaps-- perhaps a supernatural being. Like God."
But that would be it. If a student asked "Can we figure out who the designer is?" the answer has to be "Nope." And if a student asked "How do we know what is[i/] irreducibly complex and what [i]isn't irreducibly comples, but only looks like it is because we haven't figured it out, yet?" the answer has to be "Uhhhh...."
This is particularly the case as long as the IDers pretend that they're "still working" on their theory and won't offer anything about it until it's done. |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 10/03/2006 : 16:24:12 [Permalink]
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That's a pretty good approach by the IDers, from a purely propaganda viewpoint. After all, they cannot even begin to do any science about their "designer," it being impossible to define the designer or design an experiment or other valid scientific research approach (notwithstanding pleco's brilliant dirt and water win-win "experiment").
So they instead say the problem's with the evil "Darwinist" scientists, who are suppressing their "scientific research." Clever! When you've got nothing to defend, attack!
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moakley
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Posted - 10/03/2006 : 16:38:20 [Permalink]
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It is interesting since just last week we learned that Darwinism is Dead according to Jonathan Wells. If they can't do any significant ID research or get any one to sign on to do any significant ID research, could it be that Wells may have been a bit premature with his prediction.
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/04/2006 : 09:20:00 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Starman
Evolution News & Views - The State of Scientific Research on Intelligent Design quote:
I keep getting asked about the scientific research projects underway that relate to Darwinism and intelligent design. So why aren't we talking more about them publicly? For several good reasons:
The most important is that the Darwinist establishment would like nothing better than to "out" research programs before they are finished. The idea is to shut down damaging evidence as early as possible. Strangle the infant in the crib. Demand answers now to questions still being explored.
Paranoia? Hardly. There are too many examples of ID scientists and other scholars who have been hassled and harassed by the Darwinist Inquisition. (I include in the Inquisition those supposed science writers who long ago became propaganda agents rather than serious reporters.)
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We know of a lot that is happening, and it's exciting. As for the rest, we'll report it when it's ready, not before.
Poor persecuted ID-iots. So brave, so devoted, so ...
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/04/2006 : 09:22:10 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by JohnOAS
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Originally posted by Starman
Stop being such an evidenco-fascist, filthy!
You also know perfectly well that ID is not about the nature of the designer. Its not that kind of theory. I
Do you think Starman's post was cut off by the proverbial lightning bolt from above?
Of course the supreme being would find it funny to click "post" afterwards.
Perhaps he was raptured up. Know of anyone else that's gone missing suddenly? |
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JohnOAS
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Posted - 10/05/2006 : 19:11:57 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by chaloobi
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Originally posted by JohnOAS
Do you think Starman's post was cut off by the proverbial lightning bolt from above?
Of course the supreme being would find it funny to click "post" afterwards.
Perhaps he was raptured up. Know of anyone else that's gone missing suddenly?
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pleco
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Posted - 10/05/2006 : 19:56:48 [Permalink]
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Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaaaaaggghh
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/05/2006 : 20:05:21 [Permalink]
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If he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "aaaaggghhh," he'd just say it! *
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pleco
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Posted - 10/05/2006 : 20:19:16 [Permalink]
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| Can't wait for the new release of MPatHG...I hope there are lots o' goodies. Apparently it is now in the proper aspect ratio. Perhaps I will get this for me birthday (which is in 2 days). |
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