RE: I want to believe!

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 11 August 2005 12:59

> On Aug 11 12:45, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: James R. Phillips
>>> Sent: 11 August 2005 07:19
>> 
>>> Hm, I don't usually post or even read this list, but now you've tempted
>>> me. The original thread seems to have been back in April?  So perhaps
>>> you are referring to the recent buzz over ID (Intelligent Design); I
>>> guess it made the cover of _Time_. 
>>> 
>>> There are a lot of misconceptions regarding ID.  It isn't creationism at
>>> all; it is based on scientific methodologies used every day in fields
>>> such as anthropology or archeology.
>> 
>>   No, you've got it all wrong!  I said I was converted, and I have been!
>> I not only believe in ID, I know exactly *who* the designer is and _how_
>> he did it! 
>> 
>>   We are all touched by his noodly appendage!
> 
> Huh?  Can you please make jokes which are also recognizable as such
> by non-native english speakers?  

  "Alle wir werden durch seinen Nudlich Anhang berührt".  (I'm sure that
babelfish will have adequately translated that for me!)

>At least I'm pretty sure that you're joking.
> 
> I just read the article.
> 
> "Instead, they argue that design is the best scientific explanation for
>  the stunning complexity of the cellular processes that underlie life,
>  and for the evidence of how life actually developed."

  Wrong article.  I was referring to  http://www.venganza.org/ as per my
first post in this thread!  If you haven't read it yet, you should; it's a
very important contribution to the debate.

> What a crap.  Take a couple of billion micro-organisms and give them
> a billion years time to get used to their environment.  Doesn't sound
> too surprising to me that a lot of intelligently appearing live forms
> are a result of that process.  No place for a creator in that picture
> if you ask me.

  (I'll write a serious-minded rebuttal of the claims in the article when I
have more spare time.)


    cheers,
      DaveK
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