The $5,000,000 ID Research Challenge

Yeah, it's not really to the point, is it. We can create snowflakes in a laboratory, but this doesn't suggest that they're usually intelligently designed, or constitute evidence for Jack Frost.

The Templeton Foundation say they didn't actually offer any research grants to IDists ... see here for details.

It's not clear whether they mean real research or just writing nonsense about research done by real scientists. "Research" in the mouth of a creationist usually means: "A literature review, only done by a partisan idiot".

First of all I'd want to buy a small portable secondhand god ...

"The fallacy in your logic is to conclude that because the only pigs we know of can't fly that all pigs must share that constraint."That's not a fallacy in logic, that's a correct application of empiricism.

But I think we all accept that truth. ID is a "possibility". So are pigs with wings. You say there is "a scientific path to explore the potential". So tell us how you would spend five million dollars exploring that potential.

Apart from anything else, your use of the words hardware and software are just bizarre even as metaphors. No, the role of a protein in a cell is not "akin to software".

No, mram, sarcasm would have been if I'd said something like "What an excellent metaphor you have chosen! Yes, if the protein is akin to hardware then its role in the cell must be akin to software, just as the role of a computer in a factory is akin to software --- rather than, for example, its software being akin to software, as naive and ignorant people might have supposed. Thank you for enlightening us with your mighty creationist wisdom."

"Almost thought" is an excellent description of what you did.

Thank you for your demonstration of how to add something to the conversation without spewing vitriol, wait, I'll read that again, your demonstration of shameless hypocrisy.In your past few posts, you've called NoNukes a "fool" for saying something which you had in fact made up in your head; told me that you were "beginning to question [my] sanity" because I made a simple point which you were too dumb to understand, and addressed jar, a Christian, as follows: So let's have no more prissy whining out of you if others also descend to the occasional jibe. It just makes you look like a thin-skinned hypocrite. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Well "spontaneously" seems wrong from that point of view too. It would suggest that amino acids can just assemble into protein chains by themselves, rather than being fastened together by ribosomes.

This foolishness is not only off the topic of the thread but also does not appear to be a reply to anything anyone has posted. Perhaps if you learned to use the reply button we'd know what you thought you were replying to.

You should still learn to use the reply button. You'll find it at the bottom right of the message you want to reply to. That way, people will know what and whom you're replying to.Next week maybe I'll teach you some rocket science.

It's not very specific, is it? What actual experiments would you be doing? What equipment would you need?