Designer Loco
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Posted on Mon, Oct. 10, 2005
Intelligent design's big ambitions Advocates want much more than textbooks.
By Paul Nussbaum Inquirer Staff Writer
The advocates of "intelligent design," spotlighted in the current courtroom battle over the teaching of evolution in Dover, Pa., have much larger goals than biology textbooks.They hope to discredit Darwin's theory as part of a bigger push to restore faith to a more central role in American life. "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions," says a strategy document written in 1999 by the Seattle think tank at the forefront of the movement.The authors said they seek "nothing less than theoverthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies." . . .
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The dipsticks currently wielding their outrage against evolution and “materialism” are the best argument against "INTELLIGENT design." They would do better trying to live by the tenants of their Faith than by showing their stupidity attacking science.
Even if one makes a leap to: "All this complexity we see and all the – as yet – unanswered questions we have DEMONSTRATES that there must have been a designer (god)"; even if we accept THAT, there is no way anyone can point to a CHRISTIAN designer - the "designer" could be a gay, immortal Hippopotamus flower arranger or the Great Pumpkin, Thor, or Jombi in the box (mecca-lecca-hi) – Jesus and his Dad are just two deities – out of thousands - proposed by superstitious people since Cro-Magnon man started dancing.
Beyond that, even if their arguments did demonstrate a “designer,” there is no way to demonstrate that he or she is still around.
That these jerks even get a hearing makes a sad statement as to the intelligence of the American people (designed or otherwise).
- Uke Man
Posted on Mon, Oct. 10, 2005
Intelligent design's big ambitions Advocates want much more than textbooks.
By Paul Nussbaum Inquirer Staff Writer
The advocates of "intelligent design," spotlighted in the current courtroom battle over the teaching of evolution in Dover, Pa., have much larger goals than biology textbooks.They hope to discredit Darwin's theory as part of a bigger push to restore faith to a more central role in American life. "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions," says a strategy document written in 1999 by the Seattle think tank at the forefront of the movement.The authors said they seek "nothing less than theoverthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies." . . .
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The dipsticks currently wielding their outrage against evolution and “materialism” are the best argument against "INTELLIGENT design." They would do better trying to live by the tenants of their Faith than by showing their stupidity attacking science.
Even if one makes a leap to: "All this complexity we see and all the – as yet – unanswered questions we have DEMONSTRATES that there must have been a designer (god)"; even if we accept THAT, there is no way anyone can point to a CHRISTIAN designer - the "designer" could be a gay, immortal Hippopotamus flower arranger or the Great Pumpkin, Thor, or Jombi in the box (mecca-lecca-hi) – Jesus and his Dad are just two deities – out of thousands - proposed by superstitious people since Cro-Magnon man started dancing.
Beyond that, even if their arguments did demonstrate a “designer,” there is no way to demonstrate that he or she is still around.
That these jerks even get a hearing makes a sad statement as to the intelligence of the American people (designed or otherwise).
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hey Tom-
Thanks for suggesting that THE DESIGNER could be a 'she'
Maybe it is actually a "HAM"!
Phaithphully YOURS!
Phyll
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