i was trying to focus on the benefits of understanding evolution, as you seemed to question its importance. evolution is about adaptation.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/searc...tion&x=33&y=20
natural selection (evolutionary theory) is actually synonymous with adaptation.
"But not all of it has to be mystery."
it doesnt have to be if you have blind faith, but not everyone does.
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Lets be precise about what’s fair. Fair is equal access. Fair is comparing apples to apples. Fair is giving equal place at the table. Intellectually honest means that I am not afraid of your idea, because my idea is so truthful, that in the end, it will win. And if it doesn't, then we both win. I am smarter, and you are right. The key is to hire teachers that are better educators than manipulators.
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no disagreement there. science invites scrutiny, it wouldnt be science without it. on the one hand, its very positive to have intelligent design advocates confront evolutionary theory and put it to the test, thats a great thing. the flagellum argument has been proven wrong, for example - it was in the video i posted in the other thread (the response that i think motivated you to start this one). the only problem with the advocates of the intelligent design argument is it isnt based on science, and its proponents seem to want to stifle science, redefine it, destroy it. thats very irresponsible.
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Careful. “It” is getting closer to explaining things. If you walked into a desert, and in the middle of the desert you saw a 747, parked on a sand dune, your first guess would not be “Oh, look what hatched out of an egg!” ID is knocking on the door. And there are a significant number of scientist who are starting to listen.
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its not getting closer to explaining anything. intelligent design is just a way of saying, based on my subjective opinion,
this is too complicated; god mustve put it here as-is. of course, the ID community works really hard to hide its motives so that they can be taken seriously. the only way theyll finally be successful is if they adopt the scientific method and fight fire with fire, and really prove, scientifically, that evolutionary theory is wrong. until then, they wont get far, they cant. can they have a political victory? perhaps, but there will always be people who know the truth, who know what science really is.
im not sure if those who want creationism in the science classes fully appreciate how slippery that slope is. witchcraft, astrology, reincarnation. all those things will have a door they can try and walk through, if science is redefined to force the inclusion of creationism/non science.
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That’s because “science” sets the rules. If you add just one component to that equation, “God sets the rules.” Suddenly the whole paradigm shifts and plausibility and presuppositions which before said that, “because I can’t grow it in a test tube”, just get tossed out the window. Just a few short years ago, they thought the speed of light was constant...
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science is science, science itself
is the rule. if you add a component to the "equation" its no longer science.