--- Kevin Saldanha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just had to add my $0.02Cdn here for the record. Currently there have been 2 bills introduced in the US that flout this very subject line. The Christian fundamentalist movement has been bolstered by the current political climate to attempt to confuse school children with a false impression that the 'Intelligent Design' Theory (newspeak for Creationism) is a valid alternative to the Fact of Evolution. > Mario replies: Kevin, with all due respect, you need to be careful of adding anything in C$. There are some issues that real and faux scientists cannot get away from, notwithstanding the work of Stephen Hawking and the staunch defense thrown up by some on Goanet and elsewhere.
a) Intelligent Design Theory is not newspeak for Creationism, because it acknowledges the obvious science on evolution, but believes a superior being was responsible for starting the evolutionary process, and because they believe that DNA is far too complex to have just "evolved". b) The theory that time began with the Big Bang cannot be proven conclusively by science, according to many reputable and open minded scientists. The closed minded scientists have the same attitude as the Christian fundamentalists who think the Bible was personally dictated by Christ in English. c) Intelligent Design cannot be conclusively proven either since it's "evidence" is circumstantial. As I said in another post, we will find out soon enough, right after we die, whether and which religious types were right, and whether you atheists were either right or are in for the shock of your lives. So let's all chill, man, as we say in the 'hood. The controversy is not going away and the hapless kids in the US will muddle through OK, as we all did. BTW, how come you Canadian Goanetters are so obsessed on what goes on in the US? I never see anything about the evolving political and social mess in Canada, and the left-wing brainwashing of the school kids over there?
