On 10 Aug 2005, at 18:55, Abbott, Wynn wrote:
> I don't agree that the definition of Intelligent Design as religion
> is as clear-cut as you imply - ID does infer a 'belief in and
> reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator
> and governor of the universe'....however, it is also a 'theory of
> the origin of life' - this is science.
Can you point me to the "scientific theory of ID" that they want
taught in schools. I've been looking for it for about 5 years. Seems
the ID crowd are very secretive. Or maybe said theory doesn't exist.
So far we seem to have:
"Some unidentified supernatural or, maybe alien entity, who
definitely isn't God, oh no, did something, we don't know what, at
some time in the past, we don't know when, using some mechanism that
we don't know and can't design an experiment to test".
Hmm. Science? I think not.
Ian
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