A large body of evidence for "intelligent design" exists. Even common sense suggests that natural and empirical laws are linked to an intelligent designer. Reasonable people can evaluate the concept and the evidence to back it up. But, the idea of intelligent design is so feared by scientists who cling with blind faith to the increasingly challenged theory of evolution that the mere mention of it in most public schools and universities is deeply ridiculed.
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If the designer wishes to show himself, then we will believe in an intelligent designer. If by intelligent designer you mean the God of the Bible, then you are sadly mistaken, for that God does not fit the definition of "Intelligent."
I'm sorry, but there is no evidence at all for an intelligent designer. The presumption is that there is an intelligent designer, and therefore all the things in this world that go right must be complex. We look at ourselves and feel wonder, therefore it must be too complex to happen by accident. This is largely because we're seeing it at its end rather than seeing it all through. But of course, you IDers don't believe in evo either, so... what do you do?
What CWA stands for:
Anti-LGBT
Exceptfor the last 2, they seem to be female versions of those crazies that make it here everyday.
Take a single card from a complete deck.
The chance of picking any one card is only 1/52.
So with a 100% certainty, something improbable will happen.
No twit, the reason it's ridiculed in schools is because it's creationism by another name, and you aren't allowed to teach religion in public schools.
And without using your bible as excuse err source, prove creationism, please?
"A large body of evidence for "intelligent design" exists."
Do you understand English? in particular the meaning of the word "evidence" and the word "exists". Since you obviously don't, just shut the fuck up.
Is there anybody trying to force churches to also allow evolution being taught in church/Sunday School?
Why not?
Of course, they would have to allow someone other than a fundie in to teach it . . .
We keep hearing about this large body of evidence to prove intelligent design, and so far all we have is..more statements about this wonderful evidence! Enough mystery already, produce it! The only time any evidence has ever been produced in court for ID it proved so disastrous that a conservative daddy-Bush appointee judge ruled against it, so obviously that wasn't your A-class proof! Or maybe it was and you're just LYING?
If you're terrified of something, what are the odds you're going to mock it?
By that logic, you Fundie nuts would have to admit that you have nightmares about evolutionary scientists.
It's not fear, ladies...
It is three simple facts: 1. Real science does not allow for supernatural occurrences or entities; 2. Supernatural occurrences and entities are religious devices; 3. The government does not, and will not, support any religion.
'A large body of evidence for "intelligent design" exists'
Sorry, people consult all sort of scientific journals, not your church's journals. After all, we all know that you're all science-illiterate.
"increasingly challenged"
Today evolution is the foundation of all biology, so basic and all-pervasive that scientists sometimes take its importance for granted. At some level every discovery in biology and medicine rests on it, in much the same way that all terrestrial vertebrates can trace their ancestry back to the first bold fishes to explore land. Each year, researchers worldwide discover enough extraordinary findings tied to evolutionary thinking to fill a book many times as thick as all of Darwin's works put together. This year's volume might start with a proposed rearrangement of the microbes at the base of the tree of life and end with the discovery of 190-million-year-old dinosaur embryos.
Amid this outpouring of results, 2005 stands out as a banner year for uncovering the intricacies of how evolution actually proceeds. Concrete genome data allowed researchers to start pinning down the molecular modifications that drive evolutionary change in organisms from viruses to primates. Painstaking field observations shed new light on how populations diverge to form new species--the mystery of mysteries that baffled Darwin himself. Ironically, also this year some segments of American society fought to dilute the teaching of even the basic facts of evolution. With all this in mind, Science has decided to put Darwin in the spotlight by saluting several dramatic discoveries, each of which reveals the laws of evolution in action.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/310/5756/1878
"Common Sense" - what a wonderful rallying cry for the idiot.
It is getting pretty repetitive how creationists keep whining that their (ahem) science is being ignored by the mainstream. Bloody idiots wouldn't recognise science if it woke up in bed with them after a night on the town.
A large body of evidence for evolution exists. Even common sense suggests that natural and empirical laws are linked to a theory based on natural and empirical laws. Reasonable people can evaluate the concept and the evidence to back it up. But, the idea of evolution is so feared by fundies who cling with blind faith to the increasingly challenged mythology of creationism that the mere mention of it in most public schools and universities is deeply ridiculed.
Fixed.
Reasonable people can evaluate the concept and the evidence to back it up
There's no evidence to back it up. The entire concept of ID is based on the fallacious "argument from personal incredulity": "I don't see how evolution could have happened, therefore it didn't". That's the argument behind William Dembski's flawed "proof" that evolution is impossible, and also behind Michael Behe's "irreducible complexity". No one has ever produced an argument for "intelligent design" - all they've ever produced is flawed arguments against evolution, as if all they have to do is disprove evolution and "intelligent design" automatically becomes true.
“A large body of evidence for "intelligent design" exists.”
“ Even common sense suggests"
“Reasonable people can evaluate the concept and the evidence to back it up.”
“But, the idea of intelligent design is so feared by scientists”
“who cling with blind faith to the increasingly challenged theory of evolution that the mere mention of it in most public schools and universities is deeply ridiculed.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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