Re: Mischaracterization of ID?


TomS wrote:
> "On 25 Nov 2005 03:37:03 -0800, in article
> <1132918623.028284.244450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx
> stated..."
> >
> >
> >Andrew wrote:
> >> We scored one minor victory in Dover; hopefully
> >> we'll score another few.
> >
> >If you're referring to the trial, there's no verdict yet, is there? If
> >you're referring to the election, they'll be running again next time.
> >Eternal vigilance.
> >
> >And yes, certainly there will be more Dovers.
> >
>
> And we can be confident that, however favorably the trials and
> the various elections go, there will still be plenty of K-12 science
> teachers who will be afraid to talk about evolution.

This is a huge point, and I think it is the main reason for the Dover
trial and Kansas and the reason the DI continues. Creationist are not
real concerned about winning court cases or even getting ID in schools.
They are winning the battle anyway, with little opposition.
All these skirmishes do is to continue to give them resources to beat
up science in the pulpit. They are winning. They don't have to do so in
name (a court). They have the public on their sided.

Rodjk #613

>
> --
> ---Tom S. <http://talkreason.org/articles/chickegg.cfm>
> "It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so
> much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. ... The evidences ... of
> Natural Theology distinctly imply that the author of the Kosmos worked under
> limitations..." John Stuart Mill, "Theism", Part II

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