On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:12:08 -0700, "George Leroy Tyrebiter, Jr."
wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:44:41 +1000, "Antimulticulture"
> wrote:
>
>>Evolution Watch:
>>Intelligent design goes Ivy League
>>Cornell offers course despite president denouncing theory
>>April 11, 2006
>>
>>Cornell University plans to offer a course this summer on intelligent
>>design, using textbooks by leading proponents of the controversial theory of
>>origins.
>>
>>The Ivy League school's course - "Evolution and Design: Is There Purpose in
>>Nature?" - aims to "sort out the various issues at play, and to come to
>>clarity on how those issues can be integrated into the perspective of the
>>natural sciences as a whole."
>>
>>The announcement comes just half a year after Cornell President Hunter
>>Rawlings III denounced intelligent design as a "religious belief
>>masquerading as a secular idea."
>>
>>[ed. Specious logic. An idea doesn't have to be "secular" to be correct, it
>>simply needs to be factual - after all, left wing fundamentalists themselves
>>could be called "religious" in their devotion to Darwinism...]
>
>If God designed us, how come he made so many of us have serious back
>problems?
>
>The intelligent design theory assumes God is a piss-poor engineer.
Gawd-awful :-)
It's even worse as you get down to the cellular and genetic
level. It's such a confused mess that ONLY random chance could
have possibly been responsible.
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