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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 02/25/2009 : 16:02:59
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 How to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (Or Not) William Dembski Jonathan Wells tard ID creationism how to be a cdesign proponentsist (like us)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/26/2009 04:07:10
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 20:11:48 [Permalink]
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| Funny stuff HM! |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 21:56:21 [Permalink]
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Thanks, Simon!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/26/2009 : 03:47:07 [Permalink]
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What is a CDESIGN! I can't seem to find it in my Beastiary nor my copy of Dianetics. No matter though, I'm sure that if WD-less-the-40 collaborated on it, it will be beyond the ken of we mere mortals and a tedious read for even the gods themselves.
Oh wait; here it is! I found in in my Guide to Complete Idiots for the Complete idiot.
Cdesign n:
A colonic spasm resulting in great flatulence but producing no solid material. Also known as The Congressional Record.
See how it pays off to keep a reference library handy?
Thanks for the AM chuckle! 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 04:06:21 [Permalink]
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Glad you asked, Filthy! The words "cdesign proponentsists" became known in the Dover trial. The phrase was found in a badly-edited early manuscript of Of Pandas and People. The phrase is verily the missing link between Creationism and Intelligent Design. It helped to convince Judge Jones of the dishonesty of ID Creationists.
In order to pretend the book wasn't about Creationism, the Creos had been going through their "masterpiece" to remove "creationists" and replace that with "design proponents." In one place, they made an error, and "cdesign proponentsists" was the result.
[edit: Changed "phase" to "phrase." ]
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 04:58:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Glad you asked, Filthy! The words "cdesign proponentsists" became known in the Dover trial. The phase was found in a badly-edited early manuscript of Of Pandas and People. The phrase is verily the missing link between Creationism and Intelligent Design. It helped to convince Judge Jones of the dishonesty of ID Creationists.
In order to pretend the book wasn't about Creationism, the Creos had been going through their "masterpiece" to remove "creationists" and replace that with "design proponents." In one place, they made an error, and "cdesign proponentsists" was the result.
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Another definition, then. Excellent!
During the Dover circus, I was too busy watching Behe get such a licking that I felt a little sorry for him. But the feeling passed....
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 08:58:48 [Permalink]
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| As one of the plaintiffs' witnesses put it... "'CDesign propenentists' is the transitional form between creationists and ID proponents". |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 02/26/2009 : 11:01:17 [Permalink]
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| Creationism is evolving and it's guidance does not, at times, seem to be very intelligent. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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New Dembski-Wells book
