>Steven S. Clark wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>SSC>I think that it is appropriate that novel paradigms have a
>SSC>higher-than-usual hurdle to cross before being accepted by the
>SSC>scientific collective.
Wesley R. Elsberry wrote:
>I thought we were talking about the attempted rescuscitation of a
>paradigm discarded in the mid-1800's. I think that the hurdle
>is appropriately placed even higher for such "paradigms".
Thank you for pointing this out! There's a reason that ID is specifically
mentioned in some anti-creationism court rulings. It's easy to fool people
like Stephen Jones, but a lot tougher to fool a judge that ID is anything
but creationism all dressed up in new clothes. They've been forced to dump
the 6,000 year old earth and forced to accept "micro" evolution, but by and
large ID is nothing but Biblical literalism. Though, for propaganda
purposes we are very, very, very careful not to mention that "B" word. I've
been lurking in the ASA evolution list archives and I've noticed that there
are a lot of Christians there who are appalled at the dishonesty of ID
proponents. Can't say I blame them!
> . . . But one could also
>reasonably tote it up to knowledge within the IDC ranks that a
>pilot research project is not worth pursuing because they
>already know it would be a waste of money better spent getting
>to press conferences in Kansas and other anti-evolutionary
>hotspots.
back when the Paluxy thing was a big fav with creationists I often pointed
out how cheap it would be to study the many dinosaur trackways to look for
more human footprints. No such reasearch was going on because they *know*
it's a waste of money. They *knew* all along the Paluxy footprints were a
fraud. ID is pure propaganda. Baylor knows it and doesn't want any part of
it.
Susan
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of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this one.
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