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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Daniel Packman
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:23
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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., 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?


-- 
Daniel Packman
NCAR/ACD
pack@ucar.edu
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Subject: Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 02:23:56 +0000 (UTC)
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