The debate over "Intelligent Design" in Kansas is part of a larger attack on the family—from the right.
When Thomas Frank wrote his latest book, his subject was the 2004 elections rather than the debate over "intelligent design," but his question still applies: What's the matter with Kansas?…
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26 - Screen Rant
What's going on here? This conversation has been WAY too civilized and rational... ;-)
Vic
27 - Mark Schannon
Oh yeah, Vic, well I can fix that.
Your mother wears combat boots!
(Ain't it nice to have a civilized discussion...I was almost losing hope.)
28 - gonzo marx
ya didn't lose yer Hope , Mark..i got it stapled to Schrodenger's cat!
Excelsior!
29 - Mark Schannon
Yo, Gonzo, I thought I had Schrodenger's cat. So how could you pin my hopes on it?
Ah, quantum wierdness. You want to open the lid of the box?
So what the hell were we talking about? God bless John Jameson's irish whiskey.
In Jameson's Veritas.
30 - ResearcherTony
If man is but a molecular machine with DNA functioning / engineering software. Then how can there be any debate. It is the pre-programming of the DNA that is the cause of the so-called EVOLTION / or CHANGES. Intelligent changes by Intelligent software instructions. Stem cell research it a good reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Life
31 - ResearcherTony
Comment 13 posted by Pete Blackwell on May 11, 2005 12:49 AM:
"As I say in my post and others have said here: ID cannot be verified by any scientific means and is therefore not appropriate for science class."_____________________________
Oh but it has: ever heard of...Synthetic Biology
(Gene Hacking, Biosensors, Biological computing)
Bio-tech can not be held back any longer. Long live to Creators of living systems.
Death to the anti-dreamers, enemies of modern science.
32 - Steve S
that's nice. Wishing death on people who don't share your view.
And that's freaking scary, implying that scientists who use gene hacking and stuff to create life are Intelligent Designers.
If a scientist created life, s/he would be a human who made a monumental achievement beyond scope. Never before achieved except for when people have sex.
The scientist would be a human, not the Intelligent Designer of the life created. That is scary because you are equating man's ability to equal God.
33 - Steve S
you know what I mean, you are saying man has the ability to be an Intelligent Designer, the same as a God.
34 - Shark
re: comment #3 by Leon Brooks
Leon, babe, show me ONE FRIGGIN' DINOSAUR in the Bible and I'll join yer little ID cult!
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re: "Researcher Tony" -- and "Don Blosser"
Dudes, yer not potential terrorists, are ya?
PS: How do you rowdy, pissed-off boyz feel about paying taxes, the ATF, and doctors who perform abortions?
Just curious.
: )
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Re: Intelligent Design --
The population of Kansas is implicit proof that Intelligent Design isn't valid.
(If it were, shouldn't they be walking upright by now?)
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Oh, almost forgot Shark's Answer to the infamous ID thought experiment:
IMPORTANT! -->Given all the parts to a small Swiss timepiece -- and an eternity in which to toss them -- I actually COULD throw them in the air and have them land as a fully assembled, working pocketwatch.
(And thanks for asking.)
(hmmm... what would I do with that pocketwatch?)
Hey, I could swing it in front of the half-open eyes of a somnambulent American population and say stuff like "monopolistic stranglehold" and "atheism is a secular religion" and "legislative judges" while trying to put them into a medieval American faith-based Talibanic Trance.
yer getting sleepy...
yer getting sleepy...
yer getting sleepy...
*KABOOM!
* another "faith-based" **bombing
**see NYC, 9/11
35 - ResearcherTony
says Prof. Keinan. “For example, all biological systems, and even entire living organisms, are such computers.
Every one of us is a bio-molecular computer, that is, a machine in which all four components are molecules “talking” to one another in a logical manner.
http://pard.technion.ac.il/archives/presseng/Html/PR_udicomuterEng_27_2.Html
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Man is not like a machine.
For man is a machine, someone else's technology.
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And God said, let us make man in our image (creators of intelligent design)
36 - ResearcherTony
If man is a machine.
With your next laptop computer be a new species.
Organic Semiconductors Bring Foldable Computer Screens Closer
March 30, 2005
An Israeli research team has manufactured new organic semiconductors using proteins designed from scratch in the lab and linking them together in precise chains to create electronic-grade material. The new semiconductors, called electronic peptides, could lead to lighter, cheaper and more flexible electronic devices within the next two years, the researchers say.
37 - DrPat
I'll see your Spam, and raise you ten Boloney... [grin]
38 - SFC SKI
Who spams the spammen?