don't involve God "testing" people by planting fake evidence--a view that makes me want to heave
That's one of my favorite arguments, because it works with some views of the OT God (the planter of the Fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil, f'rinstance), where he's the deity who loves to say "gotcha!" like a 12-yr-old prankster. Why this view of divinity appeals to some is utterly foreign to me, but I'd bet you anything that this is George W's god: evidence can be faked, but what you feel is the truth IS the truth if you're on the lord's wavelength.
ID itself doesn't rule out macro-evolution
If you capitalize it, yes it does. Just because the Discovery Institute refers to macro-evolution as "neo-Darwinism" doesn't change that.
I'll allow that, in a survey, it's impossible to tell what any one individual means by "intelligent design" because most of the people answering were probably using the term for their own private belief system before it was co-opted by DI. Which is of course what makes their marketing department so very clever -- they've taken a term that was once used for various flavors of "however it is, that's how God made it" and turned it into a political movement to teach creationism in public schools.
I am the Way, the Light and the Truthiness.
Interesting Canadian artist. For a more non-traditional value of 'artist'.
PR: that guy clearly just doesn't get it. (Link goes to interview with
Keith
who so clearly won't take responsibility for
his own
actions.)
I'm still trying to figure out why the producers of the show would
be e-mailing him, given that being on the internet is one of the things they cited in disqualifying him. He's
still a jackass though.
I believe we are all descended from the Lawgiver.
So Roddy McDowall, then?
A religion that requires belief in Roddy McDowall ever conceiving children requires more faith in the fantastic than I'm able to muster.
Yeah, I really don't get the
email thing
. But the rules about
books seem pretty clear. And, according to Tim's podcast, the production asked repeatedly if anyone had anything like that. Keith just seems pretty clueless about how he's perceived. He
makes Malan seem very self-aware.
Cindy, there's a very interesting theory that the Noah and the Flood story originates in a catastrophic flood in the Black Sea around 5600 BC (Wikipedia story here).
