ar wrote:
I'm going to post this response to another message in this thread as
well, because it seems relevant there.
It seems to me that it might be a good project for TO to take on,
possibly for the FAQ. That is, to begin to construct strategies for
confronting ID creationists. Living in Pennsylvania as I do, with that
kook santorum,
[a]"kook," indeed.
I wouldn't doubt that such a document will come in handy
sometime in my future.
An additional point about id, that I would think many of those who
"favor" teaching id in schools doesn't know, though this point is not as
important or scientific as others that have been raised, is that it
"supports" the idea that life on earth was started and is being directed
by little green 'men' from mars.
1991 Horgan: "Orgel and Crick... speculating that the seeds of life
were sent to the earth in a spaceship by intelligent beings living on
another planet"
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?selm=b1c67abe.0402152141.5349373c%40posting.google.com
The aliens that made the life-carrying spaceship are themselves the
end product of spontaneous generation, in Crick's views. He accepts
the Big Bang theory, which makes the universe only about 15 billion
years old and correspondingly severely limits the time available for
spontaneous generation. By shifting the location of spontaneous
generation from the earth to elsewhere in the universe, Crick hopes to
gain a few billion more years for spontaneous generation to occur, and
hopes to gain unknown conditions more conducive to the occurrence of
spontaneous generation.
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