The Death of ID

Have any doubts that 'Intelligent Design' is anything but a skimpy rebranding of intellectually bankrupt pseudo-scientific 'Creation Science'? After this lecture by practicing Catholic, and practicing scientist Dr. Ken Miller, if you have any doubts on the matter, it's simply because of your faith, not your reason.

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[Dwight D. Leister: Chair: Committee To Elect]

The reason the way is small towards the light and away from darkness IS because of FAITH. Those who do NOT believe will NOT enter Heaven and continue in Darkness.

What you have said is written and believers are warned of those who are preaching Darkness.

As an Altar Boy and and taking Confirmation and being Baptized as a Luthern , my Uncle and his Father before him being a Luthern Minister the above statements were relayed to me by them in answer to your hypotheses.

Atheism is a religion and will be defined as such in future Courts, so that the rights of an Atheist do NOT trump the rights of a believer.

As my forfathers sailed here to America on the Mayflower to escape King George and his Church of England and Lutherns left the Catholic Church because of not believing the Pope is divine and the Virgin Mary is a God the evolution of what will come in the future of religion will define you and me and our souls and values towards each other.

To take a Faith out of everyone's heart on this Earth will unleash a power you or I do NOT want to witness.

[gail]

Can't believe it. Something that is interesting, positive and encouraging. I watched every minute (very long per web standards).

One point made by the speaker with which I absolutely agree: scientists don't make enough effort (if they make any at all) to educate the public. They let 'the media' hype and distort scientific findings in the worst way. Or they contribute quotes that end up in the same he-said/she-said type articles that pass for news in the political arena.

[leathej1]

It's too bad that this poor soul and others just like him can preach, but do not cannot understand faith.

Faith is the understanding that there is something outside of yourself which will lead you to your first, best destiny. This 'something' can be called God, Karma, Tao, etc. What it is called is really quite irrelevant. Faith is the highway that your soul walks along in the dead of night. It does not matter if it is US Route 66 or Ho Chi Minh Trail.

The student can either concentrate on the finger (i.e., worship the teacher), or look at the Moon (i.e., study what is taught).

Each of us understands this eventually. Your goal is to understand as quickly as possible, in order to use it to help others. At least, that's what I have so far.

[leathej1]

Sorry Gail, not you. You snuck a post in there before I finished.

[Len Gutman]

Michael,

The best journalist in the country covering this issue is Chris Mooney who has a great blog called The Intersection at http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/ and whose book The Republican War on Science is a must read for anyone who is interested in the Bush administration's science abuses -- which are monumental and far-reaching.

By the way, Chris will be speaking and signing the paperback version of his book at Changing Hands in Tempe on Sept. 27 and I'm definitely planning to be there.