Re: Dover Case Questions

2005-12-21 Thread Ed Brayton
l decision. I think this is a curious use of the phrase "relied on". The plaintiffs' expert (I presume you mean either Rob Pennock or John Haught) did not "rely on" Aquinas but merely pointed out that the argument from design is a traditional argum

Re: Dover Case Questions

2005-12-21 Thread Ed Brayton
components of the allegedly irreducibly complex system (dolphins, for example, lack factor VII or Hagemann factor yet their blood clots just fine). There is a difference between a negative argument such as this, which can be tested, and a vague model relying on supernatural causation (ID), which ca

Re: Dover Case Questions

2005-12-21 Thread Ed Brayton
don't think we can make statements about what intelligent design theory says or doesn't say about evolution or about natural history because there is no theory, just a very vague and minimalist statement and a set of arguments against evolution. Ed Brayton

Re: Dover Case

2005-12-21 Thread Ed Brayton
of the plaintiffs' experts as anything but Dr Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note

Re: Dover Intelligent-Design Case

2005-12-20 Thread Ed Brayton
with people trying to get it. I'll post a link as soon as I've got it. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Re: Dover Intelligent-Design Case

2005-12-20 Thread Ed Brayton
If you can't get the decision from the court's website, it is available at: http://www.stcynic.com/kitzmiller_342.pdf It's a big, big win for the plaintiffs. A very broad ruling, exactly what the plaintiffs wanted. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send

Re: Dover Intelligent-Design Case

2005-12-20 Thread Ed Brayton
to the decision. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large

Re: Dover Intelligent-Design Case

2005-12-20 Thread Ed Brayton
are not asserting thatobservations about deliberate language choices constitutecharacter assassination per se. Well, the Discovery Institute just (predictably) called Judge Jones an "activist judge with delusions of grandeur". Ed Brayton ___ To

Re: Dover Intelligent-Design Case

2005-12-20 Thread Ed Brayton
follow the court's ruling and not appeal it. The policy is now revoked, of course, by Judge Jones. There will be no appeal of this case. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get

Re: Dover Intelligent-Design Case

2005-12-20 Thread Ed Brayton
that they will not file an appeal of the case. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note

New Jersey Lawsuit

2005-12-16 Thread Ed Brayton
NOT to perform religious music. It seems to me that if not playing Christian music amounts to unconstitutional hostility toward Christianity, then not performing Muslim music must also be unconstitutional hostility toward Islam, and also true for Hindu music, Jewish music, and so forth. Ed Brayton

Re: Silent Night controversy

2005-12-15 Thread Ed Brayton
candle and a nativity scene. All of those things are secular aspects of what, for Christians, is an explicitly religious holiday and are thus an attempt to convert the religious into the secular. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw

Re: I've met and conferred with my fellow Jewish Conspirators --

2005-12-14 Thread Ed Brayton
of the now-infamous Article III Groupie. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages

Re: Silent Night controversy

2005-12-14 Thread Ed Brayton
, but is merely the little tree's lament sung to the same tune, in the middle of a play that is all about Christmas. Hardly justified in throwing around war on Christmas rhetoric here. In fact, it's downright silly and dishonest. Ed Brayton ___ To post

Re: Silent Night controversy

2005-12-14 Thread Ed Brayton
activities. But surely pointing to a song in a play that is all about Christmas as evidence of a war on Christmas is absurd, at best, and dishonest at worst. It's not part of some conspiracy to eliminate any mention of Christmas, for crying out loud, it's a play ABOUT Christmas. Ed Brayton

Re: Silent Night controversy

2005-12-14 Thread Ed Brayton
to cleanse the song of religious references, something they clearly did not do. If it's a victory, it's a victory for demagoguery over reason. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options

Re: A note about the Atheist Legal Center, or at least its founder

2005-12-13 Thread Ed Brayton
with the ability to turn anything negative into a compliment, totally oblivious to the reality that people are in fact insulting them: You suck Thank you, you're beautiful! I said you suck I said thanks! Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message

Re: Hmmm, Atheist Law Center, Eh?

2005-12-13 Thread Ed Brayton
wouldn't have bothered to attempt to dissuade you of your views. And thank God (ironically) that so many other Christians (I mean de facto atheists) don't agree with you in that regard. Take care. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw

Re: Kansas Prof Physically Attacked

2005-12-08 Thread Ed Brayton
. It is an argument from ignorance because we have not yet discovered the non-agent causes that made the hate come into being. [The above is a genre known as parody. Please read it that way] I read it that way before I got to the disclaimer and was laughing out loud by the end. Nice work. Ed

Re: Kansas Prof Physically Attacked

2005-12-07 Thread Ed Brayton
and anti-ID, and who really hopes that the doubts are unfounded. We have taken enough of a black eye because of Mirecki in the last couple weeks; the last thing we need is a Tawana Brawley situation on our hands. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message

Re: Kansas Prof Physically Attacked

2005-12-06 Thread Ed Brayton
. My group is holding off on reporting about it until we get more information. There are apparently a lot of things about Prof. Mirecki that have not been reported in the press and that may change this whole sordid story considerably. Ed Brayton

Re: Kansas Anti-ID Prof Apologies

2005-12-02 Thread Ed Brayton
or Joseph Mastrapaolo can tell you plenty of stories). I'm sure not going to defend this guy. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-b

Re: Swedish Pastor Beats Hate Crime Rap

2005-12-02 Thread Ed Brayton
without first accepting that Principle X is valid.You cannot logically demand that Principle X be followed consistently unless you, wittingly or unwittingly, endorse Principle X as true. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw

Re: Swedish Pastor Beats Hate Crime Rap

2005-12-01 Thread Ed Brayton
, that it is always wrong to enslave another human being. It was upon that universal principle that we fought to end slavery. Were the abolitionists being "hegemonic" in applying that principle universally? If they were, then I would suggest that "hegemonic" has no meaning at a

Re: Swedish Pastor Beats Hate Crime Rap

2005-12-01 Thread Ed Brayton
consistently say that they were wrong is to appeal to universal principles of human rights. Or were we being hegemonic to object to the Nazis killing homosexuals (and Jews...and gypsies...and dissidents...)? Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message

Re: Swedish Pastor Beats Hate Crime Rap

2005-12-01 Thread Ed Brayton
to be imprisoned, the government would be wrong and would be a bully. But that wouldn't make Phelps any less repulsive and disgusting, or any less a bully himself. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change

Re: Swedish Pastor Beats Hate Crime Rap

2005-12-01 Thread Ed Brayton
be no less compelling. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large

Re: Dueling Bible Curricula

2005-11-30 Thread Ed Brayton
curriculum. Isn't that pretty much an admission that the NCBCPS curriculum violates the Supreme Court's standards for teaching about the bible in public schools? Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscri

Re: The Holiday That Dare Not Speak Its Name

2005-11-29 Thread Ed Brayton
their employees to say it. This is the kind of over the top, wildly inaccurate rhetoric that should be condemned by any reasonable person. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get

Re: Swedish Pastor Beats Hate Crime Rap

2005-11-29 Thread Ed Brayton
speak out against homosexuality, whether that is in the US, in Sweden as in this particular case, or in Canada with the Stephen Boissoin case (another minister up on charges for writing an anti-gay letter to a newspaper). Ed Brayton ___ To post, se

Re: Kansas and Intelligent Design: A Twist

2005-11-23 Thread Ed Brayton
orldly effects would remain.) But I understand why this frightens a lot of people. That much is certainly true. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, s

Re: Kansas and Intelligent Design: A Twist

2005-11-23 Thread Ed Brayton
, as they are private. However, that doesn't mean, for instance, that government-run universities can't set standards of admission that take into account what is being taught and whether it adequately prepares a student for college level work (as in the current lawsuit against the UC system). Ed Brayton

Re: Kansas and Intelligent Design: A Twist

2005-11-23 Thread Ed Brayton
we rule out the notion that said meteor was sent intentionally by God to facilitate the eventual evolution of human beings? Of course we can't. Science can answer the "how" question; it can't answer the "why" question. Ed Brayton _

Re: Kansas and Intelligent Design: A Twist

2005-11-22 Thread Ed Brayton
hospitals are violating the establishment clause by teaching it. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw

Re: Kansas and Intelligent Design: A Twist

2005-11-22 Thread Ed Brayton
a reasonable distinction. But ID is clearly in the first camp and not the second and therefore to teach that it is false would not be an EC problem. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options

Bronx Household of Faith v New York Schools

2005-11-18 Thread Ed Brayton
the district and appeals courts not apply Lamb's Chapel, which seems to me to be more on point than Good News Club in this case, and rule for the church the first time around? Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu

Re: Bronx Household of Faith v New York Schools

2005-11-18 Thread Ed Brayton
Good News Club, the plaintiffs had a solid basis for the suit (I'd go much further and agree with the Supreme Court that it was an absolutely winning case, but at the very least it seems absurd to me to grant summary judgement in the face of such an argument). Ed Brayton

Re: Bronx Household of Faith v New York Schools

2005-11-18 Thread Ed Brayton
a solid legal argument based on Lamb's Chapel demanding non-discrimination (and I would argue, far more than just a solid argument but a very compelling and winning one). Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe

Re: Bronx Household of Faith v New York Schools

2005-11-18 Thread Ed Brayton
application so wrong in this case. It seems to me that Lamb's Chapel should have been applied, there was no need to wait for Good News Club, and the Supreme Court obviously agreed with that as well when they ruled in Good News Club. Ed Brayton ___ To post

Re: Bronx Household of Faith v New York Schools

2005-11-18 Thread Ed Brayton
- i.e. worship, in all of its essentials - yet the court still ruled the same way. So what is the constitutionally-relevant difference between them that would make one constitutional and the other unconstitutional? Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message

Re: Voters Oust Dover School Board

2005-11-09 Thread Ed Brayton
word article on the case for Skeptic magazine and this could change the ending pretty significantly. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http

Re: France: Reaping the Fruits of Aggressive Secularism

2005-11-09 Thread Ed Brayton
s other people considerably. And if people began to push the kind of policies that France has in this regard in America, you would find that fairly strict separationists like me will be right by your side in battling those policies in the legislatures and the courts. Ed Brayton

Re: Voters Oust Dover School Board

2005-11-09 Thread Ed Brayton
yesterday may complicate things even more. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note

Re: Bible study ban for RA's in UW-Eau Claire dorms

2005-11-08 Thread Ed Brayton
ms to me that the university is singling out bible studies from a long list of in-room and out-of-room activities that an RA might be involved with that might make them less "approachable" in the perceptions of other students in the dorm. Ed Brayton ___

Re: Procedural Question on Intelligent Design Case

2005-11-07 Thread Ed Brayton
and responses in one week. The trial wrapped up on Friday and I know a lot of people who were very thankful to have been able to sleep in their own beds this weekend for the first time in many weeks. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw

RE: Alito Views SCOTUS Doctrine as Giving Impression of Hostility to Religious Expression

2005-11-04 Thread Ed Brayton
rom less than reliable sources. And when their only source of information on this subject engages in inflated and wildly inaccurate rhetoric about the courts, it's small wonder that there is such a misperception out there. Ed Brayton ___ To post, se

RE: Religious Hostility--Folding Jesus Under

2005-11-04 Thread Ed Brayton
in this case, as they usually do. Ed Brayton attachment: winmail.dat___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw

RE: Religious Hostility--Folding Jesus Under

2005-11-04 Thread Ed Brayton
Title: Message I didn't say "even when it is part of the curriculum". Ed Brayton -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick DuncanSent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:57 PMTo: Law Religion issues for Law AcademicsS

Kansas situation

2005-11-04 Thread Ed Brayton
thoughts? Ed Brayton attachment: winmail.dat___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent

RE: Kansas situation

2005-11-04 Thread Ed Brayton
I just found another story about this that may change things. According to the Kansas City Star, the aunt and uncle asked if he could attend church, the judge was not requiring it. So it may well be false. I'll keep looking for information. Ed Brayton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Procedural Question on Intelligent Design Case

2005-11-04 Thread Ed Brayton
, regardless of the outcome. The appeals court has to take it, of course, but the Supreme Court does not. In fact, most of the folks I've read on the subject don't think the court will grant cert if it goes that far. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message

RE: It seems to me that general debates about same-sex marriage aren'tquite on-topic for this list

2005-11-04 Thread Ed Brayton
Gallagher's, but that's not going to be a surprise to anyone. Ed Brayton ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw

RE: An Interesting See You at the Pole Case

2005-10-31 Thread Ed Brayton
ople start to believe it. Ed Brayton -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick DuncanSent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:05 PMTo: Law Religion issues for Law AcademicsSubject: FYI: An Interesting "See You at the Pole"

RE: FYI: An Interesting See You at the Pole Case

2005-10-31 Thread Ed Brayton
with a religious message attached, the ACLU was on the right side. Ed Brayton -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:26 PMTo: religionlaw@lists.ucla.eduSubject: Re: FYI

Re: Faith tests okayed for campus Christian group at ASU

2005-10-19 Thread Ed Brayton
National golf club, and it's true of the He-Man Woman Hater's Club from the Little Rascals. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/142 - Release Date: 10/18/05

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
violation in making a purely descriptive statement that is entirely true, any more than there would be in describing the beliefs of Mormons in an American history class or the beliefs of Muslims in a world history class. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
organizations was put there for teachers to see what the range of opinions are, not for them to give to students. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/140 - Release Date: 10/18/05

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
y described as evidence that religion and evolution are not inherently incompatible. But they also acknowledge, in the text that I cited, that some people hold religious views that are incompatible. That alone, it seems to me, mitigates the concern over endorsement here. Both views are described; neither are en

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
he science, not a part of the scientific theory of evolution. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/140 - Release Date: 10/18/05 ___ To post, send message to R

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
d possibly be. Surely we don't want teachers to delve into taking a position on which one is right. That is precisely what Caldwell claims to be going on here, though it isn't. You seem to be arguing that the failure to do so is a problem, which I'm afraid leaves me quite confused. Ed Brayton N

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
undeniable and I have a difficult time seeing how acknowledging that obvious fact could possibly be an establishment clause violation. Timothy Sandefur has a more thorough analysis of this here. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
be shown to students. It is merely a reference for teachers to show them that some religious groups do in fact accept evolution and therefore there is no intrinsic incompatibility. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.2/14

Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley

2005-10-18 Thread Ed Brayton
Title: Re: New lawsuit against U Cal Berkeley Francis Beckwith wrote: Ed: On 10/18/05 9:44 PM, "Ed Brayton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only because they have been told that evolution = philosophical materialism. That is not only false, it is absurdly false.

Re: Forwarding or other republishing of posts without obtaining permi ssion of author

2005-10-14 Thread Ed Brayton
for many years, including the American Scientific Affiliation listserv and the Calvin evolution listserv. Perhaps Prof. Volokh could tell us whether that is frowned upon on this list? I wouldn't want to violate the traditions of the list. Ed Brayton Scarberry, Mark wrote: I've noticed

Re: Darwin v. Dover

2005-09-24 Thread Ed Brayton
that will be updated throughout the trial as well. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/05 ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu

Re: Group revises Bible curriculum after criticism

2005-09-22 Thread Ed Brayton
spect I've got a better chance of winning the Boston Marathon than he does of getting an apology from them. Ed Brayton Joel wrote: Posted: 9/21/05 Group revises Bible curriculum after criticism By Robert Marus ABP Washington Bureau WASHINGTON (ABP)-A group that

Re: CNN: Bush will nominate Roberts

2005-09-05 Thread Ed Brayton
himself, who by all accounts is a highly capable judge. He may well grow into the position and be just fine. But at a time when the court is more divided than ever, I think it's a bad idea to bring someone in from the outside to run things. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked

Re: CNN: Bush will nominate Roberts

2005-09-05 Thread Ed Brayton
meone from within. I fully expect that Roberts will in due time be an effective CJ. I think I'm most curious to see how Scalia will deal with him, to be honest. Ed Brayton Berg, Thomas C. wrote: On the other hand, Earl Warren by all accounts was immediately successful as a leader coming in from t

Re: Garza?

2005-09-05 Thread Ed Brayton
. But seriously, I think you're right about Garza. It makes perfect sense politically. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 9/2/05 ___ To post

Re: UC system sued

2005-08-29 Thread Ed Brayton
is not the admission of kids who go to Christian high schools, the issue if admission of a few specific courses at some Christian high schools, courses which fail to meet the standards of the university. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version

Re: UC system sued

2005-08-29 Thread Ed Brayton
dishonest, nor does it make your response here any less pompous and unjustified. When you begin to represent the facts of the case honestly and reasonably, then maybe you will have earned the credibility to pull rank on those who call you on it. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing

Re: UC system sued

2005-08-29 Thread Ed Brayton
edestal on which you have placed yourself. I'm not sure it can bear the weight of your pomposity or your inflated ego. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - R

UC system sued

2005-08-27 Thread Ed Brayton
://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21474~3026833,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050827/ap_on_re_us/creationism_lawsuit;_ylt=Aj9doupMbYBM4QWi9_AfpjtvzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl Is there any legal basis for such a suit? Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked

Re: Mean hoax (these things happen too often)

2005-08-24 Thread Ed Brayton
gedly from the founding fathers and lots of historical ignorance. Ed Brayton Gibbens, Daniel G. wrote: I've been a member of the ACLU since 1979(the Skokie situation made it clearthey were committed to basic civil rights even when it had negative impact on their donations) -- I d

Re: Mean hoax (these things happen too often)

2005-08-24 Thread Ed Brayton
hy I specified "rank and file" rather than conservative Christian intellectuals and why I said "seem particularly susceptible" rather than "unanimously and uniformly are fooled by". Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Ver

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-22 Thread Ed Brayton
nger. Can science rule out such possibilities? No. But science can and does seek out natural explanations for such phenomena and it has been wildly successful at doing so. But it doesn't get anywhere at all if we interrupt the process and say, "Well science can't explain this, so God must have

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-21 Thread Ed Brayton
e they only mandated creation science be taught as an alternative and creation science is explicitly religious. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 8/19/05 ___

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-21 Thread Ed Brayton
EC problem. I guess I'll teach Edwards in my Con Law II class based upon my best reading (which I believe is correct) and Ed can teach it in his Con Law II class based upon his best reading. If I taught a con law class, I'm sure I would do so. :) Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoi

Re: No Secular Purpose

2005-08-21 Thread Ed Brayton
gn is just the Logos theology of Johns Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory", it's going to be difficult to pretend under oath that ID is not old-fashioned creation science in a new bottle. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-21 Thread Ed Brayton
certain criteria and it meets none of them. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 8/19/05 ___ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-20 Thread Ed Brayton
be . . . . . ? I have no idea. Do you have the actual wording of the question? Most of the time, creationists mistake any mention of embryology and evolution as meaning recapitulation. Wells makes that mistake many times in his book. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-20 Thread Ed Brayton
s is the type of skepticism and incredulity that ignores what we do know and that could be used to "disprove" any explanation. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 8/19/05 ___

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-20 Thread Ed Brayton
r all of their years of training, are convinced that X is true, but someone with no training at all in the field thinks that is "farfetched", I'd say it's much more likely that this person just doesn't understand the subject they are talking about. Ed Brayton No virus found in this ou

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-20 Thread Ed Brayton
the phrase. This is likely to be very compelling in court. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 8/19/05 ___ To post, send message

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-20 Thread Ed Brayton
l selection combined with other non-adaptive mechanisms and reproductive isolation over time. You're not attacking evolution, you're attacking a crude and simplistic cartoon version of evolution that has nothing to do with the real world. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Check

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-20 Thread Ed Brayton
in or contributed to the enactment of the law. Pp. 594-596. - The ruling did in fact hold that teaching creation science was a violation of the first amendment, as the portion in italics shows. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoi

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-20 Thread Ed Brayton
constitute "theory Y". They will also be asked to point to any actual scientific research has been done that supports ID, to some evidence that ID actually is a scientific theory that can be tested or even has a coherent model from which one might derive ways to test it. And they

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Brayton
an ID model or theory and devising ways to test it, they spend all their time complaining about imagined persecution. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/77 - Release Date: 8/18/05

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Brayton
ary theory or its status as a compelling scientific explanation. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/77 - Release Date: 8/18/05 ___ To post, send message to R

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Brayton
ove that it actually happened that way". Well, that's true. If the only thing that could possibly satisfy a skeptic of how, say, the blood clotting cascade may have evolved is a videotape of the entire process as it evolved in species that went extinct hundreds of millions of years ago, there

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-19 Thread Ed Brayton
consistent with one, especially since the creationist explanation is consistent with absolutely anything - if the evidence showed the opposite, it could just be said that God decided to start from scratch rather than using a common design. When an explanation can explain any set of data, it is epistemologi

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Brayton
to have full access to the Smithsonian collection for research purposes and continues to have an office in which to work in the Smithsonian. A few rude comments does not discrimination or retaliation make. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Brayton
of the debate. Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/75 - Release Date: 8/17/05 ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change

Re: Findings on Hostility at Smithsonian Noted in NRO Article

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Brayton
id was far more mild. To turn the above into an attempt to "destroy anyone" who advocates ID is to engage in extreme hyperbole, I think. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.12/75 - Release Date: 8/17

Re: Cupertino case dismissed

2005-08-16 Thread Ed Brayton
was absolutely justified in intervening to insure that Williams was doing his job of presenting relevant and accurate material to his students. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Vi

Re: Cupertino case dismissed

2005-08-16 Thread Ed Brayton
textbook. That was one of the big problems with the Williams litigation, that the handouts contained numerous quotations falsely attributed to the founding fathers and even at least one entire document that is universally recognized as a forgery by historians. Ed Brayton -- No virus found

Cupertino case dismissed

2005-08-15 Thread Ed Brayton
chool administration has the final say on what does and does not meet that standard. It's nice to see the ADF come to their senses in the case, which was based upon distortions and should never have been brought in the first place. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG

Re: Establisment clause and oppressive taxation

2005-08-04 Thread Ed Brayton
churches too, so some portion of the taxes I paid might go to protect a church I disagree with, and so forth. Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 8/3/05

Re: Pres. Bush Supports Intelligent Design

2005-08-03 Thread Ed Brayton
tten volumes critiquing the ID arguments). Ed Brayton No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.9/62 - Release Date: 8/2/05 ___ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To

Re: Pres. Bush Supports Intelligent Design

2005-08-03 Thread Ed Brayton
in the closet for fear of career suicide with their doubts about Darwin and their support for ID. And quite convenient that, because they're in the closet, his claim can never be verified, don't you think? Ed Brayton -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version

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