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Re: The assault on the teaching of evolution:

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From: Sam Stone
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:22
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Bama Brian wrote:
> Sam Stone wrote:
> 
>> Kurt Lochner (Weasel Remember!) wrote:
>>
>>>> Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology
>>>> by William A. Dembski
>>>>
>>>> Dembski makes it clear that ID does not rely on any religious
>>>> presuppositions (as creationism does), it is a theory of information 
>>>> [..]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bullshit..  "intelligent design" is but a religious proselytizing..
>>
>>
>>
>> Which "religion" would one ascribe human/ET bioengineering to?
>>
>> http://www.sitchin.com/genetics.htm
>>
>> In my very first book, The 12th Planet, 1976, I dealt at length with 
>> the Sumerian creation texts which provide a highly sophisticated 
>> scientific narrative dealing with the creation of our solar system, 
>> the formation of the Earth, the evolution of life on Earth, the coming 
>> to Earth of the Anunnaki from their planet Nibiru, and their 
>> employment of genetic engineering to fashion Homo sapiens from a 
>> primitive human species.  In The 12 Planet and later in Genesis 
>> Revisited (1990), I showed how the Bible summed up that very 
>> scientific tale in the Book of Genesis; and how modern science was 
>> only catching up with ancient knowledge.
>>
>> In a chapter titled �The Creation of Man� I quoted passages from 
>> various clay-tablet texts that provided details of the Creation of Man 
>> process � How Enki, the chief scientist of the Anunnaki, suggested 
>> that an already existing being could be upgraded by mixing Anunnaki 
>> genes with the humanoid ones; how Ninti, the chief medical officer of 
>> the Anunnaki (and Enki�s half-sister) performed the gene-mixing; and 
>> how the resulting �clay� was used to impregnate fourteen �birth 
>> goddesses,� to become pregnant with seven males and seven females!
>>
> 
> Heh!  Mix enough scientific terms into one's fantasies and the 
> uneducated credulous will believe it.  Remember that cult that killed 
> themselves over in CA a few years ago so that their souls would catch a 
> ride on a flying saucer that was due to pass by?  All the bodies were 
> neatly lying in the bunks where they had taken their poison doses.
> 
> A belief in anything, without some proof to support it, is only a 
> superstition.

Had you bothered to read Sitchin's work you'd know that he delves deeply 
into hieroglyphs and ancient Sumerian to arrive at his conclusions. The 
very cylinders and inscriptions he cites surely ARE physical proof.

You may differ with his interpretations, but to deny him his physical 
resources is simple stupidity and intellectual dishonesty of the first 
water.
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