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Message 91 of 164 (252901)
10-18-2005 11:10 PM
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10-18-2005 11:04 PM


Re: now show me yours
Welcome sciguy,
Your posts are off topic in this thread. This thread discusses the Dover PA. science teachers and the ongoing battles to co-opt science curriculum across this country.

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    Message 92 of 164 (252907)
    10-18-2005 11:52 PM
    Reply to: Message 90 by RAZD
    10-18-2005 11:07 PM


    Re: now show me yours
    "What do you deny?"
    I guess, it must be that discussing on this thread with you is a real possibility. Hope you don't kid yourself into thinking the dissapearing creation folks here dissapear because of some strength of arguement rather than one sided so called moderation!?

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    Message 93 of 164 (252940)
    10-19-2005 4:29 AM
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    10-18-2005 11:52 PM


    Re: now show me yours
    I guess, it must be that discussing on this thread with you is a real possibility. Hope you don't kid yourself into thinking the dissapearing creation folks here dissapear because of some strength of arguement rather than one sided so called moderation!?
    Ah, Defence Mechanism No. 42. The old 'Proud Creationist blocked,bowed, but not beaten by bias' approach.

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    Message 94 of 164 (252947)
    10-19-2005 5:47 AM
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    10-19-2005 4:29 AM


    Re: now show me yours
    quote:
    Ah, Defence Mechanism No. 42. The old 'Proud Creationist blocked,bowed, but not beaten by bias' approach.
    lame.
    sciguy sees truth in everything around him on earth, the beauty, how perfect nature is, yet is shot down with the fossil record.
    Sciguy, the physical evidence lies with evolution, but the physical evidence doesn't matter.

    I am smiling.

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    Message 95 of 164 (252970)
    10-19-2005 8:25 AM
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    10-19-2005 5:47 AM


    Re: now show me yours
    sciguy sees truth in everything around him on earth, the beauty, how perfect nature is
    How perfect nature is?
    Try telling that to the victims if avian flu goes aerosol.

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    Message 96 of 164 (252975)
    10-19-2005 8:49 AM
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    10-19-2005 5:47 AM


    Re: now show me yours
    quote:
    Sciguy, the physical evidence lies with evolution, but the physical evidence doesn't matter.
    Do you like to drive?

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    Message 97 of 164 (253095)
    10-19-2005 2:50 PM


    "Astrology is Scientific" - Michael Behe
    Astrology would be considered a scientific theory if judged by the same criteria used by a well-known advocate of Intelligent Design [Behe] to justify his claim that ID is science, a landmark US trial heard on Tuesday.
    Page has gone | New Scientist

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    Message 98 of 164 (253126)
    10-19-2005 5:13 PM
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    10-18-2005 11:52 PM


    Re: now show me yours
    We could start another thread so that your rambling nul-response doesn't disrupte a real discussion,
    Hope you don't kid yourself into thinking dissapearing creation folks here dissapear because of some strength of arguement
    Again you make arrogant assumptions.
    Let's start with the age of the earth on the {Age Correlations and an Old Earth: Part II} thread
    EvC Forum: Age Correlations and an Old Earth: Part II.
    Or discuss the distinction between "micro" and "macro" at the genetic level on the {"Macro" vs "Micro" genetic "kind" mechanism?} thread
    EvC Forum: "Macro" vs "Micro" genetic "kind" mechanism?
    Or the failings of "Intelligent Design" on the basis of design as it is observed and used by known intelligent beings versus what we see on the {Silly Design Institute: Let's discuss BOTH sides of the Design debate ... } thread
    EvC Forum: Silly Design Institute: Let's discuss BOTH sides of the Design Controversy...
    What I expect are rational responses, and not bluster, arrogance and lack of substance. After all, you think you have something other than that, right?
    Pick another topic (or discuss Dover Science Teachers and the ID issue of this thread) or start another topic.
    "What do you deny?"
    I guess, it must be that discussing on this thread with you is a real possibility
    Discussing yes. This thread no (wrong one). The question is whether you are up to it: we can see who denies evidence first.
    Enjoy.

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    Message 99 of 164 (253129)
    10-19-2005 5:16 PM
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    10-19-2005 8:49 AM


    Re: now show me yours
    Say what you want to say.
    I don't particulary like to drive, "gets me from point a to point b."

    I am smiling.

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    Message 100 of 164 (253131)
    10-19-2005 5:21 PM
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    10-19-2005 2:50 PM


    Re: "Astrology is Scientific" - Michael Behe
    Doesn't looks good for Mike ...
    The exchange prompted laughter from the court, which was packed with local members of the public and the school board.
    Under cross examination, ID proponent Michael Behe, a biochemist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, admitted his definition of "theory" was so broad it would also include astrology.
    Because ID has been rejected by virtually every scientist and science organisation, and has never once passed the muster of a peer-reviewed journal paper, Behe admitted that the controversial theory would not be included in the NAS definition. "I can’t point to an external community that would agree that this was well substantiated," he said.
    Behe said he had come up with his own "broader" definition of a theory, claiming that this more accurately describes the way theories are actually used by scientists. "The word is used a lot more loosely than the NAS defined it," he says.
    Behe maintains that ID is science: "Under my definition, scientific theory is a proposed explanation which points to physical data and logical inferences."
    Can anyone tell me what is the scientific usefulness of a concept that is not testable?
    AND, if it is NOT useful then why should we change the defining element (the scientific method) of science to include useless information?
    Enjoy.

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    Message 101 of 164 (253513)
    10-20-2005 7:22 PM
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    10-19-2005 5:16 PM


    Re: now show me yours
    quote:
    Sciguy, the physical evidence lies with evolution, but the physical evidence doesn't matter.
    Do you like to be able to use the internal combustion engine for travel, or use plastics, or use anything that needed fossil fuels for manufacture, shipping, etc.?
    How do you think fossil fuels are located?
    This message has been edited by schrafinator, 10-20-2005 07:23 PM

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    Message 102 of 164 (254694)
    10-25-2005 11:51 AM
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    10-19-2005 5:16 PM


    bump for prohex
    .

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    Message 103 of 164 (254856)
    10-26-2005 7:24 AM
    Reply to: Message 100 by RAZD
    10-19-2005 5:21 PM


    Re: "Astrology is Scientific" - Michael Behe
    This phrase "external community" is rather curious. I guess it means there IS an "internal community". I happen to agree with some one thing that Will Provine said
    EvC Forum: Prof Denies Human Free Will
    when questioning Behe on science not ID, asking him, if he did not have a problem giving the same ANSWER for the difference of hundrends or thousands of proteins. Behe said he had to think about it according to Will and then said no, he had no problem with that. Will responded that if that is what the sceince WAS to have been about then it would be boring and he would not be attracted to the field. I would also not be.
    Now as to what IS this difference in the community (Gould used to use the phrase "within" etc). It is interesting to note that Will Provine debated Meyer at the National Press Club and interestingly Meyer used the adjective "perfect" with DNA and Will, if I understood the interchange properly said that Meyer should have been talking about something OUTSIDE the organism, IN THE ENVIRONMENT, not inside. If Will abstracted correctly he was correct. I will eventually get some more details on this talk by Will on EvC later. This indicates to me that there can not be a clear sense of "external" as Behe used it unless he simply IS refering to clear sources of creationism. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, though.
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    Message 104 of 164 (254857)
    10-26-2005 7:33 AM
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    10-26-2005 7:24 AM


    Re: "Astrology is Scientific" - Michael Behe
    yes, I found the "external community" comment a little strange at first.
    I took it to mean a community of {scientists\science users} external to the ID "community" of thinkers that would agree with his definition of science.
    Certainly each field and each sub-set of each field has a {cohort} that can define an "inside" and "outside" environment.

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    Message 105 of 164 (257042)
    11-05-2005 10:31 AM


    Closing Arguments
    Were made
    New York Times - "Closing Arguments Made in Trial on Intelligent Design" (click)
    The nation's first trial to test the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design as science ended Friday with a lawyer for the Dover school board pronouncing intelligent design "the next great paradigm shift in science."
    His opponent, a lawyer for the 11 parents suing the school board, dismissed intelligent design as dishonest, unscientific and based entirely on "a meager little analogy that collapses immediately upon inspection."
    The case, Kitzmiller et al v. Dover, will be decided by Judge John E. Jones III, who says he hopes to issue his ruling before the end of the year, or early January at the latest.
    Robert Muise, a lawyer for the board, said his strategy was to present scientists as expert witnesses to prove that there is a complex debate among scientists. "It's going to be difficult for the judge to decide" whether the pro- or the anti-intelligent-design scientists are right, Mr. Muise said.
    But Mr. Rothschild said, "This isn't really science against science because that would be two competing arguments based on evidence, research and peer-reviewed articles - and intelligent design has none of those."
    So did the plaintiffs show the ID material to be based on faith or just to be bad science?
    Now we wait for the decision, and the appeal and .... :sigh:

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