And therein lies the problem - your preconcieved notion that it's wrong, without having actually studied it. Unless I'm wrong - did you actually study ID? Which church/mosque/temple/shrine/Flying Spaghetti Monster bowl did you study at?
- Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gruss Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Why doesn't America believe in evolution? >> Jerry wrote: >> I am more than willing to explore alternate viewpoints. Most of which >> (in the case of evolution, creation, and ID) do not pass the >> scientific smell test. > > Back in college I studied a lot of physics. One class was part > historical physics and we talked about a South American civilization > that believed the Universe was based on the circle. > > They had advanced astronomy, but, because they believed everything was > based on the circle, they couldn't figure out the rotation of the > planets (ellipses). > > So they took circles to the next level: they said that not only did > the planets rotate around the sun, but that they themselves moved in > small circles. It turns out that their math worked and does to this > day. If you look at planetary orbits from that viewpoint, you can > indeed define and predict elliptical orbits with small circles. > > The difference between them and ID is, of course, that their solution > was science and predictive while ID is not. > > So there's plenty of room for other *scientific* viewpoints - I've > studied them - it's just that ID is not a scientific viewpoint; it's > mythology in a science Halloween costume. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214000 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
