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Steve Krivit replied
Ignorance, eh? How about information science? IMHO, the islands of
ignorance map should have the U of Maryland in bright red.
Thomas,
Why? Because of his antics with CF?
It's Parksie's whole shtick. CF is one part of it, I assume you've
heard his line, "I've yet to read a paper which proved CF". That was
because when someone handed him a paper he let it slip through his
fingers. Then there is his famous line, "I don't care about you
isotopic ratios" Now I ask you, have you ever heard the line, my mind
is made up, stop trying to confuse me with your evidence? Then there
is his attacks on my right to purchase herbs. Do I want the Parksie
retirement fund to pay for them? No. Is my taking herbs going to
affect his health? No. But he's from the government, and he's here to
help! Spare me. Then there is his attacks on energy medicine, a
subject of which he has less understanding than does a pig about
Easter. All I know is that I have used homeopathic preparations three
times, and it was symptoms gone three out of three. If someone would
give me a few million $, I'd love to run a study, is that going to
happen? don't hold your breath. But, I digress.
Even Jed, atheist that he is, admits that there has to be some kind
of an energy based intelligence which organized life. AFAIK, there
have been many theorists who have attacked the second law of
thermodynamics, and none of them have succeeded.
All what we in the Intelligent Design movement are asking is that
children be instructed in how complicated a living organism is.
Taking it one step further there is Ross's book Creator and the
Cosmos. There are many conditions and physical constants: if any of
them were changed, life would be impossible. It's not just an
individual cell that's complicated, it's the whole web of life, which
collectively reverses entropy both in concentrating solar energy into
phytochemicals, it's the DNA. It's a control system which resets
itself through the sexual fusion process. The biotechnicians were
unable to come up with a function for the majority of DNA, so they
labeled it "junk DNA." What hubris! IMHO, it acts as a receiver for a
form of energy that we don't understand.
We are threatening their religion, and they don't like it one little bit!
