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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,12:25   

Quote (fnxtr @ Feb. 22 2010,09:41)
My money's on "DNA is like computer code".

So----

There must be a programer!!!!1!!!1!!!!!111!!!!!!one

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Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,12:40   

I love the gradual creationist retreat

"God did it"  

to

"designer did it"

to

"evolution can't do that"

to

"okay evolution can do that, but..."

to

"evolution was fine tuned"

to

"initial environment was fine tuned"

..

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,12:40   

There is no way that DrDrD would give credit for such weak performances. Why, that would be pandering to students.

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,12:56   

Weak?

Looked better than average to me.

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sledgehammer



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,15:19   

Quote (Dr.GH @ Feb. 22 2010,10:40)
Why, that would be pandering to students.

Pander.  Is that British for Panda?

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,20:10   

How about it, DAEvans? Are you here to collect points in a course? That wouldn't make the "seeker after truth" claim false, exactly, but it would certainly argue that it isn't the only thing you are concerned with.

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Daevans



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:29   

Quote (Albatrossity2 @ Feb. 21 2010,06:49)
Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 21 2010,03:07)
 I don't believe evolution is a complete picture or that everything about evolutionary theory has been satisfactorily explained.

And no reputable scientist would assert that.

So it's a strawman.

Good luck with med school.



Your Straw man comments are most revealing;
Wallace (1856)-"Naturalists are too apt to imagine, when they cannot discover, a use for everything in nature: they are not even content to let "beauty" be a sufficient use, but hunt after some purpose to which even that can be applied by the animal itself, as if one of the noblest and most refining parts of man's nature, the love of beauty for its own sake, would not be perceptible also in the works of a Supreme Creator. The separate species of which the organic world consists being parts of a whole, we must suppose some dependence of each upon all; some general design which has determined the details, quite independently of individual necessities. We look upon the anomalies, the eccentricities, the exaggerated or diminished development of certain parts, as indications of a general system of nature, by a careful study of which we may learn much that is at present hidden from us..."

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:32   

Way to stay focussed, there, D. Very cogent arguments.

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sledgehammer



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:40   

Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 22 2010,21:29)
Your Straw man comments are most revealing;
Wallace (1856)-"Naturalists ...blah,blah,blahst...Supreme Creator... blah, blah blahations of a general system of nature, by a careful study of which we may learn much that is at present hidden from us..."

WTF? Total non-sequiter, as far as I can discern.  Enlighten me, please.

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Richardthughes



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:44   

He's building up to his theo-blurt. There will be bible references too, if we're "lucky".

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BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:46   

Quote (carlsonjok @ Feb. 21 2010,04:27)
Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 21 2010,05:46)
Did I mention God? Could you please point that out to me I think I missed it?

You have to understand that there is a pattern, or trajectory, to the life of an anti-evolutionist here at this site. It goes something like this:

Step 1. Hi!  I am just trying to understand evolution!  Can you help me?

Step 2. What about this [insert anti-evolution argument thinly disguised as a question]?  I am confused about how evolution explains that.

Step 3.  The actual working scientists here explain in detail the evidence disputing the argument in #2.  They try to tailor the message to the person's knowledge level, but the anti-evolutionist is circumspect about what their level of scientific study and understanding is.

Step 4.  The anti-evolutionist drops the pretense of being curious and begin debating the point using the exact arguments found in one of the innumerable anti-evolution potboilers even though it is clear they don't have even the slightest understanding of the information that was painstakingly laid out for them in #3.

Step 5.  The real working scientists become increasingly frustrated with the resistance to learning exhibited in #4 by a person who has only read one of the eleventy dozen books by Dembski, Meyers, Wells, et al and think they now qualified to overturn the last 150 years of scholarship.

Step 6.  These scientists become less willing to share their time and the knowledge that took them a lifetime of painstaking study to acquire with someone who exhibits such willful ignorance.  Some get angry out of the frustration. Others give up and engage in mockery.

Step 7.  LOLCats!



Step 8.  The anti-evolutionist says "You guys are mean!", throws out some version of Pascal's Wager, and flounces out.

So far, my friend, you have successfully gotten through Step 1 and 2.  And I am trying to help you through Step 3, but you are being rather vague.

So, in answer to your question, you didn't mention God.......yet.  And maybe you won't.   But you would be the first.




Carlson, where does a Wallace quote fit in there?

DAEvans, are you just padding your word count? Why are you going on about your conception of people rather than your ideas about science?  I'm quite sure that if you ask honest questions you will get honest answers around here. It's actually not a bad opportunity to learn or teach because there are a lot of bright and informed people who visit often enough that you could bounce ideas around pretty quickly with a wide variety of people.

Faith isn't usually much of an idea for debate though. If you want to talk about whether faith and science are incompatible, there is an excellent thread from a couple of years back (now but I bumped it last fall so it might not be too far back) started by a guy named louis titled, "No reason for a rift between faith and science? A chance for skeptic to prove his claims." If memory serves.

It is amazing in terns of the content. Maybe you want to resurrect it?

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sledgehammer



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:47   

Trying to cut-and-paste his way to the 3000 word mark, I'm guessing.

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BWE



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:48   

Ha. I beat you to it. :) ^^^

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sledgehammer



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 22 2010,23:55   

Quote (BWE @ Feb. 22 2010,21:48)
Ha. I beat you to it. :) ^^^

Gotta be quick around here. Snooze, u lose.
Those of us in the west coast time zone often get the last word, after everybody else has gone beddy-bye, and before the eurofolk have inhaled that first cup.

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,00:16   

Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 22 2010,21:29)
Your Straw man comments are most revealing;
Wallace (1856)-"Naturalists are too apt to imagine, when they cannot discover, a use for everything in nature: they are not even content to let "beauty" be a sufficient use, but hunt after some purpose to which even that can be applied by the animal itself, as if one of the noblest and most refining parts of man's nature, the love of beauty for its own sake, would not be perceptible also in the works of a Supreme Creator. The separate species of which the organic world consists being parts of a whole, we must suppose some dependence of each upon all; some general design which has determined the details, quite independently of individual necessities. We look upon the anomalies, the eccentricities, the exaggerated or diminished development of certain parts, as indications of a general system of nature, by a careful study of which we may learn much that is at present hidden from us..."

That is all you got?

All fucking day, and that is it???

I don't think that anyone with a pea brain and a decent education would insist that every quirk and twist of morphology must have had a direct positive selection.

In fact, there cannot be such a person. There are hundreds of articles on the effect of negative selection. There are hundreds of papers on neutral, or genetic drift- genome changes not selected for anything, anyway.


Wallace would probably have freaked-out at abstract expressionism as an exhibit of "the love of beauty for its own sake, ... perceptible also in the works of a Supreme Creator."

But, from a theistic evolutionary perspective, that very random yet controlled patterning is near the core of faith in God. And what would not contradict Wallace is that various expressions of the Mandelbrot set are considered beauty.



That is some random variation filtered by selection, Baby!

Edited by Dr.GH on Feb. 22 2010,22:19

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Daevans



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,00:38   

Quote (carlsonjok @ Feb. 21 2010,06:27)
Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 21 2010,05:46)
Did I mention God? Could you please point that out to me I think I missed it?

You have to understand that there is a pattern, or trajectory, to the life of an anti-evolutionist here at this site. It goes something like this:

Step 1. Hi!  I am just trying to understand evolution!  Can you help me?

Step 2. What about this [insert anti-evolution argument thinly disguised as a question]?  I am confused about how evolution explains that.

Step 3.  The actual working scientists here explain in detail the evidence disputing the argument in #2.  They try to tailor the message to the person's knowledge level, but the anti-evolutionist is circumspect about what their level of scientific study and understanding is.

Step 4.  The anti-evolutionist drops the pretense of being curious and begin debating the point using the exact arguments found in one of the innumerable anti-evolution potboilers even though it is clear they don't have even the slightest understanding of the information that was painstakingly laid out for them in #3.

Step 5.  The real working scientists become increasingly frustrated with the resistance to learning exhibited in #4 by a person who has only read one of the eleventy dozen books by Dembski, Meyers, Wells, et al and think they now qualified to overturn the last 150 years of scholarship.

Step 6.  These scientists become less willing to share their time and the knowledge that took them a lifetime of painstaking study to acquire with someone who exhibits such willful ignorance.  Some get angry out of the frustration. Others give up and engage in mockery.

Step 7.  LOLCats!



Step 8.  The anti-evolutionist says "You guys are mean!", throws out some version of Pascal's Wager, and flounces out.

So far, my friend, you have successfully gotten through Step 1 and 2.  And I am trying to help you through Step 3, but you are being rather vague.

So, in answer to your question, you didn't mention God.......yet.  And maybe you won't.   But you would be the first.




http://homebuyersadvocate.files.wordpress.com/2008....4&h=374

I thought this pic best described most of the people who responded in this forum. So I edited your nonsense and put down what you really meant.

We saw what you wrote but what you really meant.

Step 1. Hi!  I am just trying to understand evolution!  Can you help me?
(I never asked that I made a statement that I knew what it was)

Step 2. What about this [insert anti-evolution argument thinly disguised as a question]?  I am confused about how evolution explains that.

( I know exactly how Darwinism works; The goal of the materialist is to prove, by hook or crook, that nature can be explained by undirected processes is actually what is based on superstition and mysticism)


Step 3.  The actual working scientists here explain in detail the evidence disputing the argument in #2.  They try to tailor the message to the person's knowledge level, but the anti-evolutionist is circumspect about what their level of scientific study and understanding is

( I really doubt if their are ANY working scientist here  from the adolescent attacks,  the rest you wrote is just crap. What is even more remarkable is that man being the result of undirected causes believes himself capable of defining a reality that is unpredictable if undirected. Why you want to remain ignorant is of coarse your own business not mine).

Step 4.  The anti-evolutionist drops the pretense of being curious and begin debating the point using the exact arguments found in one of the innumerable anti-evolution potboilers even though it is clear they don't have even the slightest understanding of the information that was painstakingly laid out for them in #3.
( As Professor Davison point out scientist don't debate. I would say you miss understand my attention... again. I know Darwinian evolution is a ideology I don't need to question it's validity any longer,  your attacks have delivered all the evidence I could ever wish for. The Darwinist attempts to deny that intelligent causes do not exist when all one needs do is imagine the progress and advancements of civilization without intelligence. The view of the metaphysical naturalist that wholly undirected natural causes govern the universe is patently false. Believing so is based on superstition and misguided faith. Darwinist depend on a "dumb public" for support and of coarse forums like this were numerous people can ambush anyone who question Darwin)


Step 5.  The real working scientists become increasingly frustrated with the resistance to learning exhibited in #4 by a person who has only read one of the eleventy dozen books by Dembski, Meyers, Wells, et al and think they now qualified to overturn the last 150 years of scholarship.

( First let's be honest  you don't speak for working scientist you speak for your own personal experience. You get upset with other scientist who question your "Ideology" which doesn't even qualify for a theory. But you don't question your public school education because if you did you would have to question your atheistic faith, do you think your doing something "new". The same thing happened in the 60's with another religious movement which taught the same rebellious doctrine.)
( I would further state  Intelligent Design, like evolution, is a fact and a scientific theory, whether or not it has yet produced any successful rigorous predictive commodities that can reliably discern ID as the best explanation of a phenomena. Let's not forget that when Darwin first theorized evolution, he had no method for inheritance and no rigorous predictive capacity.)

Step 6.  These scientists become less willing to share their time and the knowledge that took them a lifetime of painstaking study to acquire with someone who exhibits such willful ignorance.  Some get angry out of the frustration. Others give up and engage in mockery.

( Share what knowledge? Your unfounded believe in Atheism. You see I hear people like you claim their is no debate yet here we are. On another level Scientist do disagree on this. Why are their so many Design institutes coming out?.What we see is  that mankind is anywhere near as close to explaining and defining origins let alone the workings of the universe , but what we do need is better and more in depth methods of observation.Darwin is definitely being exposed and will suffer more blows to it's shaky foundation. If that angers the atheist in these forums so what. Science is about being popular it's about searching for real answers all which have taken a back seat to a ideology which is now beginning to suffer major set backs.

Step 7.  LOLCats!
(I don't need "LOL" I have the beauty of real science and the truth Darwin is a failed model.Who can ask for more??)

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,00:48   

Quote (sledgehammer @ Feb. 22 2010,23:47)
Trying to cut-and-paste his way to the 3000 word mark, I'm guessing.

Well, with his last post, he's a bit closer.  Always amusing how creotards think they know how "Darwinism" works - of course, since they made up that word, they can say anything the like about it.  Now, if he had started claiming that he understands how Darwinian evolution works, he might be closer to reality.

I also laugh at the "unfounded believe [sic] in Atheism" - I got my lack of belief in a deity after researching multiple religions, looking at philosophy, theology (what a waste), archaeology, history, higher criticism (of the bible), biology, paleontology, physics...a whole lot of stuff, using skepticism and critical thinking and a commitment to believing in things for which there is evidence (no matter what I might want to believe, or what I "felt" about my discoveries).

But since I'm trying to get a couple of students ready for graduation, I'll just sit back and let the rest of you play with the chew toy.  Got no popcorn, so maybe I'll have a bacon narwhal.

edited the quote to what he wrote.  I'll also wait for the scientists here to come by.  Obviously, he knows none if he thinks scientists don't use insults or act like human beings.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,00:50   

Wow, fucktard just scored a perfect 7!!11!111111!!!!!!!

And you guys didn't think he could do a double head-insert-in-ass-backflip.

Oh you of little faith.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,00:51   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Feb. 22 2010,20:10)
How about it, DAEvans? Are you here to collect points in a course? That wouldn't make the "seeker after truth" claim false, exactly, but it would certainly argue that it isn't the only thing you are concerned with.

I am sorry. what truth? What is it that you are trying to sell?
it is my observation that most people take for granted that they know what evolution by natural selection means. It is my feeling that once a person has a clear impression of Darwinism, with the criticisms then they will be better able to make an informed decision concerning its validity.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,00:51   

Ah, we've reached step 4.  All pretenses dropped.  Unsupported assertions spewed with abandon. Atheism is religion.  Evolution is false and evil.  Mockery ensues (step 6). Anything else?

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Daevans



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,00:59   

Quote (Dr.GH @ Feb. 23 2010,00:50)
Wow, fucktard just scored a perfect 7!!11!111111!!!!!!!

And you guys didn't think he could do a double head-insert-in-ass-backflip.

Oh you of little faith.

Oh, those are your subconscious thoughts. I shouldn't listen to them too hard if I were you. If your dog tells you to kill someone, unless it's your own suicide I would stay away from voices in your head.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,01:03   

Quote (sledgehammer @ Feb. 23 2010,00:51)
Ah, we've reached step 4.  All pretenses dropped.  Unsupported assertions spewed with abandon. Atheism is religion.  Evolution is false and evil.  Mockery ensues (step 6). Anything else?

yes step 4, your pretenses are quite delightful. There's no point in being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,01:22   

Quote (Badger3k @ Feb. 23 2010,00:48)
Quote (sledgehammer @ Feb. 22 2010,23:47)
Trying to cut-and-paste his way to the 3000 word mark, I'm guessing.

Well, with his last post, he's a bit closer.  Always amusing how creotards think they know how "Darwinism" works - of course, since they made up that word, they can say anything the like about it.  Now, if he had started claiming that he understands how Darwinian evolution works, he might be closer to reality.

I also laugh at the "unfounded believe [sic] in Atheism" - I got my lack of belief in a deity after researching multiple religions, looking at philosophy, theology (what a waste), archaeology, history, higher criticism (of the bible), biology, paleontology, physics...a whole lot of stuff, using skepticism and critical thinking and a commitment to believing in things for which there is evidence (no matter what I might want to believe, or what I "felt" about my discoveries).

But since I'm trying to get a couple of students ready for graduation, I'll just sit back and let the rest of you play with the chew toy.  Got no popcorn, so maybe I'll have a bacon narwhal.

edited the quote to what he wrote.  I'll also wait for the scientists here to come by.  Obviously, he knows none if he thinks scientists don't use insults or act like human beings.

Never guess, unless you have to; there's enough uncertainty in the universe as it is.

I stand by the great words of Professor Davison-Atheists in science should not only be antagonized; they should be thoroughly despised, ridiculed and exposed. Unless, of course, you happen to be one yourself!

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,01:23   

Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 23 2010,01:22)
Quote (Badger3k @ Feb. 23 2010,00:48)
Quote (sledgehammer @ Feb. 22 2010,23:47)
Trying to cut-and-paste his way to the 3000 word mark, I'm guessing.

Well, with his last post, he's a bit closer.  Always amusing how creotards think they know how "Darwinism" works - of course, since they made up that word, they can say anything the like about it.  Now, if he had started claiming that he understands how Darwinian evolution works, he might be closer to reality.

I also laugh at the "unfounded believe [sic] in Atheism" - I got my lack of belief in a deity after researching multiple religions, looking at philosophy, theology (what a waste), archaeology, history, higher criticism (of the bible), biology, paleontology, physics...a whole lot of stuff, using skepticism and critical thinking and a commitment to believing in things for which there is evidence (no matter what I might want to believe, or what I "felt" about my discoveries).

But since I'm trying to get a couple of students ready for graduation, I'll just sit back and let the rest of you play with the chew toy.  Got no popcorn, so maybe I'll have a bacon narwhal.

edited the quote to what he wrote.  I'll also wait for the scientists here to come by.  Obviously, he knows none if he thinks scientists don't use insults or act like human beings.

Never guess, unless you have to; there's enough uncertainty in the universe as it is.

I stand by the great words of Professor Davison-Atheists in science should not only be antagonized; they should be thoroughly despised, ridiculed and exposed. Unless, of course, you happen to be one yourself!

well I guess no one want to play anymore. Goodnight.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,02:36   

I don't feel like playing, you seem to have realized that there isn't anything to be learned here that you didn't already know. Dembski's place would suit you better. I believe Dembski would be proud of you, you seem to have all the qualities required to be a contributor and moderator there.

I suppose I do not need point you to AiG, CMI and all the other excellent anti-atheistic forums out there, they most certainly will provide much better answers that you may get here. Evolution fairytale is another place I think might suit your taste.

But by all means, do come back here whenever you think you have learned something we haven't heard before. Don't expect to learn anything here that you didn't learn in kindergarten.

BTW, there is something called books. In lack of education and schooling, that's what I've been using the past 65 years and I am not finished yet. Just in case you'd want to learn something you don't want to know.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,03:03   

Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 23 2010,00:38)
Why are their so many Design institutes coming out?

ROFL. Yes indeed.

But can you actually name them?

If not, retract your claim.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,03:18   

Quote (Daevans @ Feb. 22 2010,22:51)
Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Feb. 22 2010,20:10)
How about it, DAEvans? Are you here to collect points in a course? That wouldn't make the "seeker after truth" claim false, exactly, but it would certainly argue that it isn't the only thing you are concerned with.

I am sorry. what truth? What is it that you are trying to sell?
it is my observation that most people take for granted that they know what evolution by natural selection means. It is my feeling that once a person has a clear impression of Darwinism, with the criticisms then they will be better able to make an informed decision concerning its validity.

BTW, Totally agree with this point^

Not this quite as much:
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( I know exactly how Darwinism works; The goal of the materialist is to prove, by hook or crook, that nature can be explained by undirected processes is actually what is based on superstition and mysticism)
As a strangely coincidental matter of fact, I just powsted a monstrous post on that exact subject in the thread just below this one. I think it would be neat if you offered commentary on it.


But regardless, I'm your man regarding the learning alternate viewpoints. Please teach me. I assist the world's greatest middle school science teacher  with an integrated 3 year curricculum and I'm always looking for new stuff. If you have it, I'll learn it and you might even get your ideas into a middle school curriculum. I live in Portland, OR so religion in science class in terms of theories about the physical world isn't much of a problem as long as they teach science honestly. And they do. We have mostly educated people around here so religion is vanishingly thin. Part of our integrated curriculum on physical science year as a matter of fact coincides with ancient civilizations year and we do a science of ancient civilizations unit where the teachers split 4 classrooms up into 5 groups and they have to learn about the civilization. Up to a quarter of the kids don't know the difference between Hinu, Islam and christianity. They have simply never considered the question.

So please, I am your eager pupil. I await information.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,03:31   

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Why are their so many Design institutes coming out?

ROFL. Yes indeed.

But can you actually name them?

If not, retract your claim.

The Rhode Island school is a front. Don't trust them. :)

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Who said that ev'ry wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,04:55   

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I don't feel like playing, you seem to have realized that there isn't anything to be learned here that you didn't already know. Dembski's place would suit you better. I believe Dembski would be proud of you, you seem to have all the qualities required to be a contributor and moderator there.

I suppose I do not need point you to AiG, CMI and all the other excellent anti-atheistic forums out there, they most certainly will provide much better answers that you may get here. Evolution fairytale is another place I think might suit your taste.

But by all means, do come back here whenever you think you have learned something we haven't heard before. Don't expect to learn anything here that you didn't learn in kindergarten.

BTW, there is something called books. In lack of education and schooling, that's what I've been using the past 65 years and I am not finished yet. Just in case you'd want to learn something you don't want to know.

What Darwin followers will never admit. Is that everything we really know about the origin  of life and subsequent history of life pleads in favor of a determined, internally directed and planned scenario just as Robert Broom, a amazingly gifted scientist, believed.

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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 23 2010,05:04   

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What Darwin followers will never admit.

It's really about what you have evidence for, not what people will "admit".
 
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Is that everything we really know about the origin  of life and subsequent history of life pleads in favor of a determined, internally directed and planned scenario

Citation please.
 
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just as Robert Broom, a amazingly gifted scientist, believed.

Argument from authority? To be expected I suppose.
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subsequent history of life

Please explain cancer, HIV etc in the light of a planned scenario.

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I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies".
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