Re: OT: ID dealt legal blow

In article <dofro8$jmk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Trane Francks <trane@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 12/23/2005 12:11 AM +0900, Rockett Crawford wrote:
>
>> The ID in question here is just New Earth Creationism by fundamentalists
>> disquised to try to sneek it into public schools as some kind of secular
>> science.
>
>Absolutely. As an interesting addition to the problem, the Dover school
>board superintendent seems a bit, uhm, open-minded. In "a deposition
>taken January 3, 2005, Dover Superintendent Nilsen suggested that the
>"master intellect" described in an ID textbook might also be an alien."
>(Quoted from Pat Shipman's article in American Scientist @
><http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/47366?&print=yes>.)
>If that bit is true, it's a scary, scary bit.

You're quoting a documented liar, so the truth value is a tad
questionable.

That said, it is -- sort of -- true. The thing is, the Discovery
Institute _has_ to claim that they're not advancing a religious
doctrine in pushing ID. This is made harder by the fact that all
of the DI's 'scholars' do believe the the designer is a Christian
God.

So, to maintain the sham that it isn't religion, they footnote
that the ID could also be space aliens or time-travelling biologists
from our future.

And then they rapidly go on to how nobody can possibly investigate
anything about the designer (who, how, when, what, ... -- all the
sorts of questions we'd leap on if it were science).

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evidence and ease; this great facility makes them less appreciated than they
would be had they been presented in a more abstruse manner." Two New Sciences
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