Ah, the so called debate between Evolutionists and Intelligent Design Proponents continues on unabated. At least in my opinion the real tragedy is that the IDers pretend to be debating the issue. It appears to me that the so-called imminent ID scientists are really just putting forward their arguments in order to weaken the authority and respectibility of scientists and the work they do for society. The long term hidden agenda seems to be to give the judeo-christian religious right some pre-eminent authority over our society's TRUTH. Of course the TRUTH of reality is what a rational society uses to base all their decisions on. When scientific truth is debased and discredited, as it has been for the last several years, it will be much easier for different faith-based truths to control the public discourse, determine to the detriment of science and technology what we teach in schools, and promote certain religious groups as the so called Chosen People. I can't write about this subject nearly as well as some others do so here are a couple of great links:
A scientific debate at Natural History Magazine
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/nhmag.html
An opinion
http://flakmag.com/opinion/intelligent.html
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The interesting thing is that the ID people are all Christian but they wont claim to be a religious or Christian group. They seem to sort of have some strange conspiracy and had some wierd back way to getting evolution out of schools...seemed rather strange from what I heard about them...isnt their group in seattle (dont remember the name of the institute for sure). But in response to religion and science, did you know that science only arose in Christian Europe rather than the places where they had no sense of a creator.something to think about...~shaina
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