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From: "Allan Harvey" <aharvey@boulder.nist.gov> wrote:
> I think the future impact, if any, of ID will depend on what direction the
> movement takes. If it is primarily pursued *as science* (like Michael
> Behe's work seems to be for the most part), then it has some chance of
> having an impact on the broader scientific world. But if it is primarily
> pursued as gap-based apologetics (as exemplified by Phil Johnson), the
> broader scientific world will continue to dismiss it as just another
> "creationist" effort, not quite so silly as YEC, by those whose concept of
> God requires them to find "fingerprints" in nature in order to maintain
> their theism.
The problem with YECs is that they want to believe in anything so long as it
is contradicted by observational data, it is not that they want to find
fingerprints. Finding some kind of fingerprint seems quite reasonable to me
especially when we are being asked to believe that a man rose from the dead.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
Lots of information on creation/evolution
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