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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Sam Stone
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:38
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Daniel Packman wrote:
> In article <QpEBd.1912310$SM5.148224@news.easynews.com>,
> Sam Stone  <sirian@mental.org> wrote:
> 
>>Daniel Packman wrote:
> 
>  ......
> 
>>>Many find intelligent design is plausible, but it remains irrelvant to
>>>science. It has no measurable consequence.
> 
> 
>>Really?
> 
> 
>>I would think the consequence would lie in our innate societal 
>>proclivities toward both destruction and creation.
> 
> 
> I see no intrinsic connection between the two and perhaps a
> logical disconect: any intelligent design would not include
> such procivities., 

Now there's a thought, so perhaps we're an untelligent design?

Or even an amalgam of an intelligent gene spliced with a less elegant 
hominid variant?

> But even assuming there were, how do you
> even measure "societal proclivities"? If we have six or more
> units of this proclivity then we are 95% intelligently designed?

Dunno, if we're spliced there would be some variance in behavioral 
product i'd think.
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