intelligent design?
All this talk in the US which George W Bush, err excuse me, President Bush has generated about teaching 'intelligent design' in schools to complement 'evolutionary theory' is the biggest load of crock to rival the Catholic Church's previous doctrine that the sun revolved around the earth.
'Intelligent design' is nothing more than crack-pottism masquerading as science. In fact, this stupid idea just proves how threatened the Christian conservatives are with science, even if theoretical.
The existence of god or some higher being is based on faith. Faith does not require scientific proof. By virtue of introducing the concept of 'intelligent design', the proponents not only give credence to 'evolutionary theory' with which they disagree, but are admitting to cracks within their own faith.
It took the Catholic Church a long time to admit that Gallileo was correct (and they even punished him as a heretic).
Sometimes particular aspects of religious beliefs can just be plain wrong.
Certainly 'evolutionary theory' would not be the only branch of science to threaten the faith of conservative Christians. What about probability theory in mathematics? Will the crackpots introduce something to suggest that there is no such thing as probability as the 'higher being' has a grand design and there is no such thing as chance?
Scientific knowledge has taken thousands of years to develop by human civilisations. Now is not a time to make a mockery of it.
If 'intelligent design' is going to be a 'serious' area of science, then I would suggest that the 'guiding higher being' of earth's evolutionary development are in fact a race of more advanced aliens conducting their own scientific experiment.
Reporting in:
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post
Time magazine
* Please visit Cooper and Camilla who are good at finding out about things and sharing it with us.
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After another sleep in today, my human was motivated enough to clean the house (the excuse was Devi coming over for dinner). Aside from a good clean and a change of bedding, he prepared the slow cooked lamb shanks which created a wonderful smell for most of the day.
Devi came over straight after work so she was in her nice clothes so I was not allowed to lie on her lap. They had the lamb with mashed potato and sweet potato, and blanched broccolini.
keisercat@wildmail.com
'Intelligent design' is nothing more than crack-pottism masquerading as science. In fact, this stupid idea just proves how threatened the Christian conservatives are with science, even if theoretical.
The existence of god or some higher being is based on faith. Faith does not require scientific proof. By virtue of introducing the concept of 'intelligent design', the proponents not only give credence to 'evolutionary theory' with which they disagree, but are admitting to cracks within their own faith.
It took the Catholic Church a long time to admit that Gallileo was correct (and they even punished him as a heretic).
Sometimes particular aspects of religious beliefs can just be plain wrong.
Certainly 'evolutionary theory' would not be the only branch of science to threaten the faith of conservative Christians. What about probability theory in mathematics? Will the crackpots introduce something to suggest that there is no such thing as probability as the 'higher being' has a grand design and there is no such thing as chance?
Scientific knowledge has taken thousands of years to develop by human civilisations. Now is not a time to make a mockery of it.
If 'intelligent design' is going to be a 'serious' area of science, then I would suggest that the 'guiding higher being' of earth's evolutionary development are in fact a race of more advanced aliens conducting their own scientific experiment.
Reporting in:
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post
Time magazine
* Please visit Cooper and Camilla who are good at finding out about things and sharing it with us.
........ooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooooo........
After another sleep in today, my human was motivated enough to clean the house (the excuse was Devi coming over for dinner). Aside from a good clean and a change of bedding, he prepared the slow cooked lamb shanks which created a wonderful smell for most of the day.
Devi came over straight after work so she was in her nice clothes so I was not allowed to lie on her lap. They had the lamb with mashed potato and sweet potato, and blanched broccolini.
keisercat@wildmail.com
posted by Keiser at 22:00
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