Re: Some Thought On Intelligent Design - WAS: OT Is George Bush Drinking?


Tim Daneliuk wrote:

>
> I'm not saying science should promptly go out and do this.
> I've said all the way though this thread that existing
> science should be engaged in a civil and throughtful
> debate with people like the IDers rather than running from
> them. The very fact that we have never observed "something
> springing from nothing" coupled with the fact that the
> Universe is a "something" should be triggering really deep
> questions about existing methods of science and how they
> might be improved.
>

The problem with civility of discourse in this case is not with the
scientists. It is the IDers who insist they are correct, without an
iota of proof, and who get excessively forceful about it, insisting on
equality with proven science.

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