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By MARTHA RAFFAELE
The Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Experts on both sides of the debate over whether
public schools should teach "intelligent design" as an alternative to
evolution — a question already before a federal court — sparred in front of
a state legislative panel Monday.
The House Subcommittee on Basic Education heard testimony on a bill that
would allow local school boards to mandate that science lessons include
intelligent design, a concept that holds the universe must have been
created by an unspecified guiding force because it is so complex.
The legislation is sponsored by only a dozen lawmakers, and its prospects
of passing the General Assembly are unclear as lawmakers try to meet a June
30 state budget deadline.
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Read it at http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-
28/111930537269990.xml&storylist= or http://tinyurl.com/952w4
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Michael J. Behe, a biological sciences professor at Lehigh University, told
the subcommittee that intelligent design has no religious underpinnings.
Critics argue that it is a secular variation of creationism, the biblical-
based view that regards God as the creator of life.
Behe said intelligent design merely contends that evidence of complex
physical structures shows that design, rather than evolution, is
responsible for an organism or cell.
Some lawmakers struggled to understand the concept.
"I've always viewed evolution as sort of the ultimate design. It would
change and adapt and accommodate to whatever the situation was," said Rep.
P. Michael Sturla, D-Lancaster. "When did the intelligent design occur, in
your theory?"
Behe had no answer.
"Questions like, 'When did the designing take place?' ... are all good
questions. We'd love to have answers for them, but they are separate
questions from the question, 'Was this designed in the first place?'" Behe
said.
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21 Jun 2005 06:01:45 AM |
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Also see 'House panel hears debate on creation theory' at
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1119345680203
250.xml&coll=1 or http://tinyurl.com/7bc2k
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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
BY BILL SULON
Of The Patriot-News
Supporters and opponents of intelligent design found little common ground
yesterday on whether the theory may be taught in the state's public schools
along with the theory of evolution.
Intelligent design holds that the universe and living things are best
explained by the existence of a guiding force. Lawyers and professors on
both sides of the issue spoke at a four-hour hearing before the House
subcommittee on basic education.
The panel is considering legislation to allow schools to include the theory
of intelligent design when discussing evolution.
"Let it be taught alongside" evolution, subcommittee Chairman Rep. Samuel
E. Rohrer, R-Berks County, said near the end of the hearing.
The panel took no action yesterday, but is expected to discuss the issue
next month.
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21 Jun 2005 09:49:09 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
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Michael J. Behe, a biological sciences professor at Lehigh University, told
the subcommittee that intelligent design has no religious underpinnings.
Critics argue that it is a secular variation of creationism, the biblical-
based view that regards God as the creator of life.
Behe said intelligent design merely contends that evidence of complex
physical structures shows that design, rather than evolution, is
responsible for an organism or cell.
Some lawmakers struggled to understand the concept.
"I've always viewed evolution as sort of the ultimate design. It would
change and adapt and accommodate to whatever the situation was," said Rep.
P. Michael Sturla, D-Lancaster. "When did the intelligent design occur, in
your theory?"
Behe had no answer.
"Questions like, 'When did the designing take place?' ... are all good
questions. We'd love to have answers for them, but they are separate
questions from the question, 'Was this designed in the first place?'" Behe
said.
J. Spaceman
That is actually a good question from Sturla. And interesting but not
at all surprising that Behe had no answer. In reality, he could not
answer.
He would be laughed out of his school if he said 6,000-10,000 years,
but if he said millions/billions of years ago he would be hit with it
in every debate. ID Creationist like Behe don't want to talk about
time...
Rodjk #613
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21 Jun 2005 07:56:59 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
Also from the article:
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Michael J. Behe, a biological sciences professor at Lehigh University, told
the subcommittee that intelligent design has no religious underpinnings.
Critics argue that it is a secular variation of creationism, the biblical-
based view that regards God as the creator of life.
Behe said intelligent design merely contends that evidence of complex
physical structures shows that design, rather than evolution, is
responsible for an organism or cell.
Some lawmakers struggled to understand the concept.
"I've always viewed evolution as sort of the ultimate design. It would
change and adapt and accommodate to whatever the situation was," said Rep.
P. Michael Sturla, D-Lancaster. "When did the intelligent design occur, in
your theory?"
Behe had no answer.
"Questions like, 'When did the designing take place?' ... are all good
questions. We'd love to have answers for them, but they are separate
questions from the question, 'Was this designed in the first place?'" Behe
said.
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I would nominate that paragraph for a Chez Watt. So what
exactly is your "theory," Mr. Behe? Science is too
"irreducibly complex" for you to understand? Thought so.
--Jeff
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21 Jun 2005 06:07:21 AM |
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Also see 'Spotlights on biology and God' at
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/living/health/11943819.htm
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While scientific advances are being celebrated in Phila., Pa. lawmakers
are debating teaching intelligent design.
By Amy Worden
Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG - Only hours after Gov. Rendell and several lawmakers
participated in the ribbon-cutting that opened the global biotechnology
conference in Philadelphia yesterday, other legislators in the state
Capitol were resurrecting the debate over evolution.
As some of the world's leading scientists considered the latest advances
in disease treatment, stem-cell research and bioterrorism response, a
panel of educators, scientists and civil libertarians clashed over a
recently introduced bill that would allow the teaching of intelligent
design in Pennsylvania's public school science classes.
Intelligent design, a concept advanced in the 1980s, holds that
evolution alone cannot adequately explain the universe. Proponents say
that scientific breakthroughs suggest the presence of an intelligent,
purposeful designer.
"I'm baffled and exasperated that we are spending time with this," said
Rep. Daylin Leach (D., Montgomery), a member of the basic education
subcommittee considering the legislation.
Leach called the coincidental timing of BIO 2005 at the Convention
Center and the subcommittee meeting a "very ironic juxtaposition."
The two events taking place 90 miles apart yesterday underscore a schism
over scientific thought in Pennsylvania's political landscape: The
state's senior U.S. senator, Republican Arlen Specter, champions funding
for embryonic stem-cell research, while its junior senator, Rick
Santorum, also a Republican, unsuccessfully fought to amend the No Child
Left Behind law to include intelligent design. Also, millions of dollars
in state funds are being poured into biosciences research and
development at the same time that a York County school district is
embroiled in a lawsuit over plans to teach intelligent design.
In the Capitol, lawmakers last week unanimously approved a resolution
declaring this week BioSciences Week in Pennsylvania, and lawmakers
yesterday - for the first time in modern memory - considered
alternatives to Darwin's origin of species.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Thomas C. Creighton (R., Lancaster), would
amend the school code to allow districts to include the teaching of
intelligent design.
"The current code has a bias toward atheists who promote evolution
theory," Creighton said.
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21 Jun 2005 07:16:21 AM |
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"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:Xns967C487AB94C5notreallyjspacemanho@216.196.97.142...
Also see 'Spotlights on biology and God' at
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/living/health/11943819.htm
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While scientific advances are being celebrated in Phila., Pa. lawmakers
are debating teaching intelligent design.
By Amy Worden
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Thomas C. Creighton (R., Lancaster), would
amend the school code to allow districts to include the teaching of
intelligent design.
"The current code has a bias toward atheists who promote evolution
theory," Creighton said.
Ahh so there are overtly religious motives.
Ian
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21 Jun 2005 06:29:20 AM |
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As far as can be made out it is difficult to tell the difference at an
elementary level. The basic question is can random mutations + natural
selection provide a complete Theory of Everything (including
Intelligence) without any other input.
I think most people would agree that the fossil record should be taught
as the basic rubric. Also the fate of all the various AI projects that
have taken place should also be taught. If nothing else, to make sure
the mistakes are not repeated.
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
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21 Jun 2005 07:52:56 AM |
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writes:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
No, keep it out of computer science. It no more belongs there than
it belongs in biology.
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22 Jun 2005 10:30:40 AM |
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Neil W Rickert wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com writes:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
No, keep it out of computer science. It no more belongs there than
it belongs in biology.
No exactly true... In fact it PROVES Intelligent design.
Take two computers on one place a program in it that will
write a computer program using Randomly generated Binary
code.
On the other a program that utilizes every known scientific/
Mathematical theory & law to create a life sustaining planet
& evolve life forms on that planet capable of surviving
on it.
Now Right there you have PROVEN Intelligent design as FACT.
the act of programming can only be done via Intelligent
Design & NOT by randomly generated 1s & 0s.
Ike
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22 Jun 2005 01:22:20 PM |
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In article <Aufue.7432$hK3.131@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Lazyike67 <lazyike67@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> writes:
Neil W Rickert wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com writes:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
No, keep it out of computer science. It no more belongs there than
it belongs in biology.
No exactly true... In fact it PROVES Intelligent design.
Take two computers on one place a program in it that will
write a computer program using Randomly generated Binary
code.
In fact exactly that sort of thing is done; it forms an
entire branch of Computer Science, called genetic programming
or genetic algorithms.
Genetic programming uses the same
mechanisms as does biological evolution:
the code-level equivalents of mutation, recombination,
selection, and reproduction. Useful programs can
be produced in this manner -- the last plane
you flew on may well have had the blades in the
jets' turbines "designed" by an algorithm
evolved by this approach.
-- cry
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22 Jun 2005 12:46:25 PM |
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Lazyike67 wrote:
Neil W Rickert wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com writes:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
No, keep it out of computer science. It no more belongs there than
it belongs in biology.
No exactly true... In fact it PROVES Intelligent design.
Take two computers on one place a program in it that will
write a computer program using Randomly generated Binary
code.
On the other a program that utilizes every known scientific/
Mathematical theory & law to create a life sustaining planet
& evolve life forms on that planet capable of surviving
on it.
Now Right there you have PROVEN Intelligent design as FACT.
the act of programming can only be done via Intelligent
Design & NOT by randomly generated 1s & 0s.
Well, gosh, if only I could get my life to re-compile.
--Jeff
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a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights,
and destructive of the Common Happiness, of
Mankind; and therefore every free State hath
a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession
of such Property."
Ben Franklin
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21 Jun 2005 08:41:20 AM |
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Neil W Rickert wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com writes:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
No, keep it out of computer science. It no more belongs there than
it belongs in biology.
Not true. Intelligent design is a key word for a trend in program design...
nothing to do with the "Discovery by Imagination Institute" variety, but it is
a term of art.
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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
"Darwin's theory has no more to do with philosophy than any other
hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122
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21 Jun 2005 09:08:40 AM |
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, John Wilkins <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au> wrote:
Neil W Rickert wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com writes:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
No, keep it out of computer science. It no more belongs there than
it belongs in biology.
Not true. Intelligent design is a key word for a trend in program design...
Actually it should be taught in Marketing, where vaporware is a useful
concept.
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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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21 Jun 2005 09:59:03 PM |
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In talk.origins Bobby D. Bryant <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, John Wilkins <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au> wrote:
Neil W Rickert wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com writes:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
No, keep it out of computer science. It no more belongs there than
it belongs in biology.
Not true. Intelligent design is a key word for a trend in program design...
Actually it should be taught in Marketing, where vaporware is a useful
concept.
I'll vote for that.
---- Paul J. Gans
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21 Jun 2005 08:24:55 AM |
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As far as can be made out it is difficult to tell the difference at an
elementary level. The basic question is can random mutations + natural
selection provide a complete Theory of Everything (including
Intelligence) without any other input.
Evolution is not presented as a Theory of Everything. It is a theory
about biological origins - though that *does* include the origin of
intelligence. And it is quite adequate for explaining that.
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The peace of God be with you.
Stanley Friesen
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21 Jun 2005 06:44:04 AM |
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As far as can be made out it is difficult to tell the difference at an
elementary level. The basic question is can random mutations + natural
selection provide a complete Theory of Everything (including
Intelligence) without any other input.
I think most people would agree that the fossil record should be taught
as the basic rubric. Also the fate of all the various AI projects that
have taken place should also be taught. If nothing else, to make sure
the mistakes are not repeated.
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
Since there is no such thing as a scientific theory of ID what would
you teach and why? Would you represent it honestly and how would you
do this? Unfounded assertions do not make a theory. Why should they
be taught if they don't have a foundation? You keep acting like there
is something to teach, but even the scam artists haven't come up with
anything to teach. Where is your lesson plan. What are you going to
teach? How are you going to teach it? What do you expect the students
to learn from the lesson and how will you evaluate if the students have
learned it? Why do you think that there isn't a single one of the ID
scam artist Wedgies have ever put forward a simple lesson plan to
demonstrate that they had anything worth teaching? Where is Meyer's
lesson plan? Where is Dembski's lesson plan? Where is West's lesson
plan? Why hasn't the Discovery Institute with all its "brain" power
ever been able to come up with a lesson plan?
If you think that you can do what these guys don't want to do or can't
do honestly, just give it a try and find out why.
Ron Okimoto
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22 Jun 2005 10:09:55 AM |
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Ron O wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com wrote:
As far as can be made out it is difficult to tell the difference at an
elementary level. The basic question is can random mutations + natural
selection provide a complete Theory of Everything (including
Intelligence) without any other input.
I think most people would agree that the fossil record should be taught
as the basic rubric. Also the fate of all the various AI projects that
have taken place should also be taught. If nothing else, to make sure
the mistakes are not repeated.
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
Ron,
You narrow minded atheist fundies crack me up... Free Thinkers my fat
*****.
Since there is no such thing as a scientific theory of ID what would
you teach and why?
This right here is the entire problem... here is the logic of your
thinking... "The earth is like a Giant flat plate because everytime I
turn around I see a continuous curve."
Now you folks take this "fact" & build a religeon out of it.
Here is another example of Darwin logic. "A Tricycle has three wheels
therefore if a pilot gets into a craft with three wheels he is flying a
three wheeled bike."
The worst thing is you folks pass as FACT that every vehicle that has
three wheels is a child's bike. Then you ignore other facts as they do
not fit your belief.
Would you represent it honestly and how would you do this?
Far more honestly than you would. How? I'd start the class this way.
"Science is mans quest to place order in the universe. It's role is to
teach us HOW and WHY things work. This year we will discuss how things
came to be via two theories. One Evolution, The other Creation.
You will be expected to examine these rationally, logically &
Scientifically. Your role as future scientists is NOT to state one side
is fact but to discover if one OR BOTH are correct. A Scientist MUST be
willing to ASK QUESTIONS & SEEK answers through extensive research."
Unfounded assertions do not make a theory. Why should they
be taught if they don't have a foundation?
Well then that right there should ban evolution. Darwin took two
things that looked alike & said one evolved from another. From
that day on schools have taught this fantasy that Man evolved
from apes because Apes and Man look alike.
Creation is like an artist at work. the Artist molds the medium
to form a work of art. A statue does not evolve from a chunk of
rock. A plate does not "Evolve from a lump of clay". ID is a Fact
you folks MUST ignore to prove a theory as fact.
You keep acting like there is something to teach,
There is for those who SEEK answers & not accept as "fact"
ANYTHING that sounds good.
but even the scam artists haven't come up with
anything to teach.
Again very incorrect. the First question to be asked is this.
If you was to create a universe what would you need to know?
Where is your lesson plan.
From asking questions then seeking the answers ot those questions
without ASSUMING that becuase someone like you "THINKS" they know
"everything about everything" states their belief is scientific
fact does NOT make it so.
What are you going to teach?
The kids wil learn what Science REALLY is about. That is to Ask
questions & discover the answers.
Creationism will be the key to terraforming as well as open
new fields of research & scientific theories.
How are you going to teach it? What do you expect the students
to learn from the lesson and how will you evaluate if the students have
learned it?
the same way evolution is taught.
Why do you think that there isn't a single one of the ID
scam artist Wedgies have ever put forward a simple lesson plan to
demonstrate that they had anything worth teaching?
THey have you Darwin Fanatics choose to only accept what you like as
fact. It's like picking out the cashews in a can of mixed nuts then
throwing away what you don't like.
Where is Meyer's
lesson plan? Where is Dembski's lesson plan? Where is West's lesson
plan? Why hasn't the Discovery Institute with all its "brain" power
ever been able to come up with a lesson plan?
If you think that you can do what these guys don't want to do or can't
do honestly, just give it a try and find out why.
Have you bothered to do ANY research or is this another stupid belief in
a half-truth?
Look I am nowhere near a bible Scholar. I have not read it cover to
cover & memorized it. That said I can truely say that from my position
I can see the issue more clearly. I am no content in accepting something
as mindlessly as you.
I do not believe God is infinatly wise or absolute perfection. Hell
the Bible proves this wrong. Somewhere in the bible there is a quote
that goes something like "My (God's) time is not your time."
This alone is a MAJOR clue... not to mention one of the top One Hundred
Questions.
We know for a fact that time on the ISS is NOT the same as how you or I
see it. We also Know that 1 day on each of the other eight planets in
our solar system is NOT 24 hours or 1 year on the other nine planets is
NOT always 365 days.
Lets take 2 planets... Planet A has a revolution of 37 hours
Planet B is 24 hours. Planet A is 17 hours longer than Planet B.
therefor a Planet B year on Planet A would be about 258 days
5 hrs. 4 min. 17 sec. LONGER than on Planet B. about 1.4 years
longer.
Now if you based everything on B Time then it will NOT come out
correct on Planet A right?
So rather than use our time scale the question is how long will
it take you to travel SIX light years. As the convertion here is
extremely confusing for me lets just take what I've estimate (If
anyone of you can be more exact go for it.)
by my estimation the age of the universe is about 189,216,000+
years. i light year per day scale. If it is more like 1 light year
per second then multiply that by how many seconds are in 6 days.
But lets run with my figure... It may have taken 189,216,000
years in OUR time yet only 6 days (144 hours) in God's time.
I believe this time frame should be more acceptable for you on
the pro evolution side.
I believe the actions God takes MUST follow the Rules of
Science. IOW God can not create a rotating planet without
Gravity. It HAS to either be in rotation or not.
So Can evolution exsist outside creation or Creation
outside Evolution? NO! As this would violate a yet to be
discovered law of science.
Look at evolution as more a sculptur working with a
plyable medium... Like clay or glass. One does not
blow once and form a perfect Glass Vase. It MUST evolve
over time with changes.
So rather than something happening by Chance the design was
tweaked & altered until it became the object desired.
Evolution alone is like throwing paint at a canvas & expecting
to eventually become a landscape painting. It just ain't gonna
happen. for one to paint a landscape with a building, Trees, a
clouded sky & a snow capped mountain paint must be mixed in the
proper colors & applyed at the proper moment one step at a time.
This is Creationism & Intellegent Design at work. As the Painting
goes from blank canvas to a work of art it MUST evolve.
Evolution is a REQUIRED process in Intellegent Design.
So does it prove one side over the other? NO it proves BOTH MUST
co-exsist.
Here is the biggest issue you eveolutionists have... You can not
seperate God from religeon. God does not exsist because of religion
he exsists via science.
So how about this... Rather than looking at God as a Minister look at
him as a scientist. By doing this you will begin to see the gaps
in Evolutionary Science filled with Creation Science.
Now as we learn more about Mars we discover life may have
exsisted on the planet... So at one time there was TWO planets
that held life in the solor system.
What IF Earth was never ment to hold human life? What if humans
were suposed to live on Mars? Well that would make THIS planet
Mars & Mars- Earth. Now the bible makes two major exsistance altering
references.
The first when Adam & Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden &
the second Noah's Flood.
Only now do we understand Genetic manipulation & limited cloning.
Both of these were IMPOSSIBLE in Darwins time.
In closing there IS proof of Intellegent Design in nature you just need
to be willing to look.
The same goes for the bible literallists... they have to be open to the
possibility that in the act of creation God tweaked & altered things
untill it was perfect in HIS view.
So If we were created in God's Image then God is Humanoid in appearance.
Something to think about.
Ike
Oh due to the length of this post I'm not going to bother running
my spell checker so do expect spelling errors.
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23 Jun 2005 03:15:08 AM |
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Lazyike67 <lazyike67@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote in news:7bfue.7427$hK3.5285
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(nonsense skipped>
Evolution alone is like throwing paint at a canvas & expecting
to eventually become a landscape painting. It just ain't gonna
happen. for one to paint a landscape with a building, Trees, a
clouded sky & a snow capped mountain paint must be mixed in the
proper colors & applyed at the proper moment one step at a time.
NO NO NO NO NO! That stupid probability argument keeps popping up again and
again; I can't stand it anymore!
You *so* misunderstood the fundamental idea of Evolution!
Evolution is *not* "like throwing paint at a canvas & expecting to
eventually become a landscape painting". Rather, it's like throwing paint
on many many many many canvases, *then* selecting the ones you like best
and *then* making multiple copies of them. Do this ad infinitum and always
select the copies you like best and throw away the rest.
Due to the fact that you can never make a perfect copy of a "painting",
eventually new features will arise in your copies: new colour combinations,
new shapes, maybe even clouds, trees and people. And nobody was there to
*create* them - it was just a process of "natural selection"!
Really, I fail to see why ID proponents find these fundamental concepts so
hard to understand.
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| User: "Katt" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Bill would allow Pa. schools to teach "intelligentdesign" |
22 Jun 2005 11:13:47 AM |
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"Lazyike67" <lazyike67@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:7bfue.7427$hK3.5285@newsread3.news.
Well then that right there should ban evolution. Darwin took two
things that looked alike & said one evolved from another. From
that day on schools have taught this fantasy that Man evolved
from apes because Apes and Man look alike.
**Note to scientists/atheists**:
While the abovequoted droolings obviously aren't of any interest in
themselves, they do prompt me to say how much I am always *fascinated* to
see this kind of ID-iot reveal just how *up-tight* s/he is about the
human-ape connection. Something about it really seems to rile these nutbars!
For some reason that they're obviously unable to articulate (or even to
focus on consciously...), some part of their self-definition is *desperately
knotted up* with the need 'not to be an ape', 'not to be descended from
ape-like primates', 'not to share a common ancestor with modern gorillas and
chimps', and 'not to have a genetically close species existing alongside us
in the modern world'. Whatever the terrors of fear and insecurity they are
struggling to fend off by means of their psychotic denial of our ape-ish
nature and inheritance, these kooks are committed to a set of *wholly
imaginary and ultimately unsustainable discontinuities*...
Creation is like an artist at work. the Artist molds the medium
to form a work of art. A statue does not evolve from a chunk of
rock. A plate does not "Evolve from a lump of clay". ID is a Fact
you folks MUST ignore to prove a theory as fact.
Yup: demented.
Katt.
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| User: "Jeffrey Turner" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Bill would allow Pa. schools to teach "intelligentdesign" |
22 Jun 2005 12:49:56 PM |
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Katt wrote:
"Lazyike67" <lazyike67@earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote:
Well then that right there should ban evolution. Darwin took two
things that looked alike & said one evolved from another. From
that day on schools have taught this fantasy that Man evolved
from apes because Apes and Man look alike.
**Note to scientists/atheists**:
While the abovequoted droolings obviously aren't of any interest in
themselves, they do prompt me to say how much I am always *fascinated* to
see this kind of ID-iot reveal just how *up-tight* s/he is about the
human-ape connection. Something about it really seems to rile these nutbars!
For some reason that they're obviously unable to articulate (or even to
focus on consciously...), some part of their self-definition is *desperately
knotted up* with the need 'not to be an ape', 'not to be descended from
ape-like primates', 'not to share a common ancestor with modern gorillas and
chimps', and 'not to have a genetically close species existing alongside us
in the modern world'. Whatever the terrors of fear and insecurity they are
struggling to fend off by means of their psychotic denial of our ape-ish
nature and inheritance, these kooks are committed to a set of *wholly
imaginary and ultimately unsustainable discontinuities*...
Well, duh! I mean, c'mon, if there was no question that humans
were outside of animals and evolution was just about land
animals turning into whales do you think it would raise a fuss?
Humans are special. *I'm* special. God - the omnipotent
creator of _everything_ - looks like ME, and I look like Him.
The whole universe reflects MY greatness. Bow down.
So what if sea gulls were related to tyrannosaurus rex? As long
as I'm special. But evolution threatens MY status, so I have to
disbelieve all that other inconsequential stuff that is the real
wedge in the door to...
--Jeff
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"an enormous Proportion of Property vested in
a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights,
and destructive of the Common Happiness, of
Mankind; and therefore every free State hath
a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession
of such Property."
Ben Franklin
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| Title: Re: In the News: Bill would allow Pa. schools to teach "intelligentdesign" |
22 Jun 2005 08:00:32 PM |
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Lazyike67 wrote:
Ron O wrote:
ianparker2@gmail.com wrote:
As far as can be made out it is difficult to tell the difference at an
elementary level. The basic question is can random mutations + natural
selection provide a complete Theory of Everything (including
Intelligence) without any other input.
I think most people would agree that the fossil record should be taught
as the basic rubric. Also the fate of all the various AI projects that
have taken place should also be taught. If nothing else, to make sure
the mistakes are not repeated.
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
Ron,
You narrow minded atheist fundies crack me up... Free Thinkers my fat
*****.
Since there is no such thing as a scientific theory of ID what would
you teach and why?
This right here is the entire problem... here is the logic of your
thinking... "The earth is like a Giant flat plate because everytime I
turn around I see a continuous curve."
Now you folks take this "fact" & build a religeon out of it.
Here is another example of Darwin logic. "A Tricycle has three wheels
therefore if a pilot gets into a craft with three wheels he is flying a
three wheeled bike."
The worst thing is you folks pass as FACT that every vehicle that has
three wheels is a child's bike. Then you ignore other facts as they do
not fit your belief.
Would you represent it honestly and how would you do this?
Far more honestly than you would. How? I'd start the class this way.
"Science is mans quest to place order in the universe. It's role is to
teach us HOW and WHY things work. This year we will discuss how things
came to be via two theories. One Evolution, The other Creation.
You will be expected to examine these rationally, logically &
Scientifically. Your role as future scientists is NOT to state one side
is fact but to discover if one OR BOTH are correct. A Scientist MUST be
willing to ASK QUESTIONS & SEEK answers through extensive research."
Unfounded assertions do not make a theory. Why should they
be taught if they don't have a foundation?
Well then that right there should ban evolution. Darwin took two
things that looked alike & said one evolved from another. From
that day on schools have taught this fantasy that Man evolved
from apes because Apes and Man look alike.
Creation is like an artist at work. the Artist molds the medium
to form a work of art. A statue does not evolve from a chunk of
rock. A plate does not "Evolve from a lump of clay". ID is a Fact
you folks MUST ignore to prove a theory as fact.
You keep acting like there is something to teach,
There is for those who SEEK answers & not accept as "fact"
ANYTHING that sounds good.
but even the scam artists haven't come up with
anything to teach.
Again very incorrect. the First question to be asked is this.
If you was to create a universe what would you need to know?
Where is your lesson plan.
From asking questions then seeking the answers ot those questions
without ASSUMING that becuase someone like you "THINKS" they know
"everything about everything" states their belief is scientific
fact does NOT make it so.
What are you going to teach?
The kids wil learn what Science REALLY is about. That is to Ask
questions & discover the answers.
Creationism will be the key to terraforming as well as open
new fields of research & scientific theories.
How are you going to teach it? What do you expect the students
to learn from the lesson and how will you evaluate if the students have
learned it?
the same way evolution is taught.
Why do you think that there isn't a single one of the ID
scam artist Wedgies have ever put forward a simple lesson plan to
demonstrate that they had anything worth teaching?
THey have you Darwin Fanatics choose to only accept what you like as
fact. It's like picking out the cashews in a can of mixed nuts then
throwing away what you don't like.
Where is Meyer's
lesson plan? Where is Dembski's lesson plan? Where is West's lesson
plan? Why hasn't the Discovery Institute with all its "brain" power
ever been able to come up with a lesson plan?
If you think that you can do what these guys don't want to do or can't
do honestly, just give it a try and find out why.
Have you bothered to do ANY research or is this another stupid belief in
a half-truth?
Look I am nowhere near a bible Scholar. I have not read it cover to
cover & memorized it. That said I can truely say that from my position
I can see the issue more clearly. I am no content in accepting something
as mindlessly as you.
I do not believe God is infinatly wise or absolute perfection. Hell
the Bible proves this wrong. Somewhere in the bible there is a quote
that goes something like "My (God's) time is not your time."
This alone is a MAJOR clue... not to mention one of the top One Hundred
Questions.
We know for a fact that time on the ISS is NOT the same as how you or I
see it. We also Know that 1 day on each of the other eight planets in
our solar system is NOT 24 hours or 1 year on the other nine planets is
NOT always 365 days.
Lets take 2 planets... Planet A has a revolution of 37 hours
Planet B is 24 hours. Planet A is 17 hours longer than Planet B.
therefor a Planet B year on Planet A would be about 258 days
5 hrs. 4 min. 17 sec. LONGER than on Planet B. about 1.4 years
longer.
Now if you based everything on B Time then it will NOT come out
correct on Planet A right?
So rather than use our time scale the question is how long will
it take you to travel SIX light years. As the convertion here is
extremely confusing for me lets just take what I've estimate (If
anyone of you can be more exact go for it.)
by my estimation the age of the universe is about 189,216,000+
years. i light year per day scale. If it is more like 1 light year
per second then multiply that by how many seconds are in 6 days.
But lets run with my figure... It may have taken 189,216,000
years in OUR time yet only 6 days (144 hours) in God's time.
I believe this time frame should be more acceptable for you on
the pro evolution side.
I believe the actions God takes MUST follow the Rules of
Science. IOW God can not create a rotating planet without
Gravity. It HAS to either be in rotation or not.
So Can evolution exsist outside creation or Creation
outside Evolution? NO! As this would violate a yet to be
discovered law of science.
Look at evolution as more a sculptur working with a
plyable medium... Like clay or glass. One does not
blow once and form a perfect Glass Vase. It MUST evolve
over time with changes.
So rather than something happening by Chance the design was
tweaked & altered until it became the object desired.
Evolution alone is like throwing paint at a canvas & expecting
to eventually become a landscape painting. It just ain't gonna
happen. for one to paint a landscape with a building, Trees, a
clouded sky & a snow capped mountain paint must be mixed in the
proper colors & applyed at the proper moment one step at a time.
This is Creationism & Intellegent Design at work. As the Painting
goes from blank canvas to a work of art it MUST evolve.
Evolution is a REQUIRED process in Intellegent Design.
So does it prove one side over the other? NO it proves BOTH MUST
co-exsist.
Here is the biggest issue you eveolutionists have... You can not
seperate God from religeon. God does not exsist because of religion
he exsists via science.
So how about this... Rather than looking at God as a Minister look at
him as a scientist. By doing this you will begin to see the gaps
in Evolutionary Science filled with Creation Science.
Now as we learn more about Mars we discover life may have
exsisted on the planet... So at one time there was TWO planets
that held life in the solor system.
What IF Earth was never ment to hold human life? What if humans
were suposed to live on Mars? Well that would make THIS planet
Mars & Mars- Earth. Now the bible makes two major exsistance altering
references.
The first when Adam & Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden &
the second Noah's Flood.
Only now do we understand Genetic manipulation & limited cloning.
Both of these were IMPOSSIBLE in Darwins time.
In closing there IS proof of Intellegent Design in nature you just need
to be willing to look.
The same goes for the bible literallists... they have to be open to the
possibility that in the act of creation God tweaked & altered things
untill it was perfect in HIS view.
So If we were created in God's Image then God is Humanoid in appearance.
Something to think about.
Ike
Oh due to the length of this post I'm not going to bother running
my spell checker so do expect spelling errors.
This post is exactly why there is no ID lesson plan. I left it intact
for posterity. The Wedgies can only hope that this is a troll. If it
isn't they have a long row to ***** to get the weeds out of their way.
After reading this post does anyone not understand why the Wedgies have
never presented their own ID lesson plan?
Ron Okimoto
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| User: "Jeffrey Turner" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Bill would allow Pa. schools to teach "intelligentdesign" |
21 Jun 2005 08:14:42 AM |
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wrote:
As far as can be made out it is difficult to tell the difference at an
elementary level. The basic question is can random mutations + natural
selection provide a complete Theory of Everything (including
Intelligence) without any other input.
I think most people would agree that the fossil record should be taught
as the basic rubric. Also the fate of all the various AI projects that
have taken place should also be taught. If nothing else, to make sure
the mistakes are not repeated.
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
Why in the world would you consider ID to come under Comp Sci?
--Jeff
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"an enormous Proportion of Property vested in
a few Individuals is dangerous to the Rights,
and destructive of the Common Happiness, of
Mankind; and therefore every free State hath
a Right by its Laws to discourage the Possession
of such Property."
Ben Franklin
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| User: "Bobby D. Bryant" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Bill would allow Pa. schools to teach "intelligent design" |
21 Jun 2005 09:06:31 AM |
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, wrote:
Personally I think Evolution should be taught in Biology and ID (or
possibly some infinite theory) taught in Computer Science. This would
surely be the best preparation.
Given the gross flaws of fact and logic that ID is built on, I think it
should be taught in Composition & Rhetoric -- in a unit called "don't
frame your arguments like this".
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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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| User: "Katt" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Bill would allow Pa. schools to teach "intelligent design" |
21 Jun 2005 10:32:50 AM |
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"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote in message
news:d996t6$4u4$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu...
Given the gross flaws of fact and logic that ID is built on, I think it
should be taught in Composition & Rhetoric -- in a unit called "don't
frame your arguments like this".
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Brief notes/thoughts on 'ID', submitted for possible discussion:
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i) It's clearly a 'last ditch' effort: they know that 25 years from now
we'll have fully sequenced the genomes of >50,000 species -- and that the
emerging, detailed picture of common ancestry and inter-relatedness will
blow them and their infantile black-and-white boundaries (not to mention
their powerful, rich institutions..) out of the water. By getting 'ID' into
schools now, they think they can postpone the inevitable for another two or
three generations.
ii) It's an out-of-date argument (c.f. William Paley, c.1800) that has
simply been re-heated in a neo-Darwinist 'new synthesis' world: the
diagnosis of 'ID' in a given instance is really nothing more than an
'argument from personal incapacity' which chooses to privilege the current
stage (sometimes, more dishonestly, a previous stage...) of scientific
explanation and declare that this is 'final enough' for them to be able to
say that the 'irreducible complexity' requires to be explained in
essentially magical terms.
iii) It's a *desperate* argument: this dependence of 'ID' on an 'arbitrary
stopping point' for scientific advancement is significant. There is not the
slightest evidence that science is 'slowing down' in such a way that could
leave many or some massively complex ('irreducibly complex') structures
forever beyond the reach of our neo-Darwinist models; thus the 'ID-ers'
evident need to look at something through what are merely today's (or
yesterday's...) lenses has an air of sheer desperation about it: 'That's
quite far enough!', they seem to say; 'We now know all we need to know to be
able to say that this simply had to be 'designed'...!'.
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Jotted in a hurry; hope this is all clear enough; thoughts invited...
Katt.
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| User: "john" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: Bill would allow Pa. schools to teach "intelligent design" |
21 Jun 2005 05:56:25 AM |
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Surely if there is religious freedom in Pa shouldn't all of the
(7000+?) creation myths of the other world religions also be taught.
After all, if the claims of the creationists that evolution is wrong
are valid who is to say which of the other creation myths is true?
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