Intelligent Design is religion - not science

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Re: Intelligent Design is religion - not science

Soon ,wino will preach the doctrine of transformisme .

[Anonymouse]

Re: Intelligent Design is religion - not science

Soon ,wino will preach the doctrine of transformisme .

Wino believes he is God and as such he never makes mistakes. Even infidelity is considered normal in his book.

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Re: Intelligent Design is religion - not science

Wino believes he is God and as such he never makes mistakes. Even infidelity is considered normal in his book.

He can't be God because he doesn't believe in God but he believes in Monkeys. Lets put 2 and 2 together.

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Re: Intelligent Design is religion - not science

By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor

PARIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has restated its support for evolution with an article praising a U.S. court decision that rejects the "intelligent design" theory as non-scientific.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said that teaching intelligent design -- which argues that life is so complex that it needed a supernatural creator -- alongside Darwin's theory of evolution would only cause confusion.

A court in the state of Pennsylvania last month barred a school from teaching intelligent design (ID), a blow to Christian conservatives who want it to be taught in biology classes along with the Darwinism they oppose.

The ID movement sometimes presents Catholicism, the world's largest Christian denomination, as an ally in its campaign. While the Church is socially conservative, it has a long theological tradition that rejects fundamentalist creationism.

"Intelligent design does not belong to science and there is no justification for the demand it be taught as a scientific theory alongside the Darwinian explanation," said the article in the Tuesday edition of the newspaper.

Evolution represents "the interpretative key of the history of life on Earth" and the debate in the United States was "polluted by political positions," wrote Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at Italy's Bologna University.

"So the decision by the Pennsylvania judge seems correct."

EVOLUTION CONFUSION

Confusion about the Catholic view of evolution arose last year when both the newly elected Pope Benedict and his former student, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, said humans were part of an intelligent project designed by God.

An article by Schoenborn in the New York Times in July seemed to signal a Church shift toward intelligent design because it played down a 1996 statement by Pope John Paul that evolution was "more than a hypothesis."

This triggered a wave of "Vatican rejects Darwin" headlines and attacks from scientists, Catholics among them, who argued that had been proved man evolved from lower beings.

Schoenborn later made it clear the Church accepted evolution as solid science but objected to the way some Darwinists concluded that it proved God did not exist and could "explain everything from the Big Bang to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony."

The Church, which has never rejected evolution, teaches that God created the world and the natural laws by which life developed. Even its best-known dissident, Swiss theologian Hans Kueng, echoed this in a recent book in Germany.

Schoenborn said he spoke up because he shared Benedict's concern, stated just before his election last April, that a "dictatorship of relativism" was trying to deny God's existence.

TENET OF FAITH

Pennsylvania Judge John Jones ruled that intelligent design was a version of creationism, the belief that God made the world in six days as told in the Bible, and thus could not be taught without violating a ban on teaching religion in public schools.

It was not science, despite claims by its backers, he said.

This literal reading of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is a tenet of faith for evangelical Protestants, a group that has become politically influential in the United States.

Many U.S. Catholics may agree with evangelicals politically, but the Church does not share their theology on this point. Intelligent design has few supporters outside the United States.

While not an official document, the article in L'Osservatore Romano had to be vetted in advance to reflect Vatican thinking.

The Seattle-based Discovery Institute -- the main think tank of the ID movement -- said on its website that reading the Osservatore article that way amounted to an attempt "to put words in the Vatican's mouth."

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Looks like you finally came out of the closet only to post this.

[Sip]

Re: Intelligent Design is religion - not science

He can't be God because he doesn't believe in God but he believes in Monkeys. Lets put 2 and 2 together.

Do you believe in idiots? Now put that 2 together with your 4

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Re: Intelligent Design is religion - not science

Do you believe in idiots? Now put that 2 together with your 4

My 4? hmmm... hahaha
Hey, sip where did you get the 4? Oh, *2 plus 2 makes 4* herd mentality.

If I were George Orwell I would be laughing my ass off as 2+ 2 not always equals 4. I am tempted to quote my all time favorite *idiot8 Dostoevsky who was imprisoned for rejecting the statement * two plus two equals 4*.
"I admit that two times two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, two times two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too." ( I think that Ara balozian could easly plagiarise this sentence by putting * in front of it ). Anyway , Dostoevsky also adds that it’s the free will to choose or reject illogical as well as logical that makes mankind human. Yes, sometimes I reject logical which makes me an idiot ,which also makes me a human but do you know what they say about a guy who thinks he is all that smart?


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