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filthy
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Posted - 12/08/2006 :  12:57:29  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message


Cowbirds, parasitism and intelligent design
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Cowbirds, Parasitism, and Intelligent Design
Red State Rabble reader Neil M. was eating lunch at his desk, reading Scientific American, and thinking about the many spurious arguments for intelligent design coming out of Seattle's Discovery Institute when it suddenly occurred to him that -- huge though their brains may be -- the boys at Discovery could not possibly have come up with any of their many arguments for intelligent design in the absence actual science.

Behe, Dembski, and others talk about irreducible complexity, their favorite examples are the many proteins in the blood that are involved in clotting. They talk, also, about the structure of the eye, and bacterial flagella. They talk, and they talk, and they...
From Red State Rabble -- do we link to that site? If not, we ought to.




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beskeptigal
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Posted - 12/09/2006 :  22:05:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
Goes with the comment near the end of The Atheists Delusion from the other thread, something to the effect scientists are right about everything from nuclear bombs to modern medical cures but wrong about everything that contradicts the Bible.

Of course.



Edited by - beskeptigal on 12/09/2006 22:05:43
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