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I am currently doing a term paper on why Intelligent Design shouldn't be taught in school. I need some books that present the "theory" in a coherant way. I currently am reading through Darwin's Black Box. I hope to get one more pro-intelligent design book to use as a source. What would be a good...

I find the commonly used argument "ID is not a science since it cannot be investigated, explained, or proven scientifically", very peculiar. it doesn't make any sense. Why? Because: The very basis of ID is the active use of intelligence. The very basis of all science is the active use of...

Intelligent Design is a trojan horse attempt to get Christian creationism into the classroom, but wouldn't there be a better case for Evil Design than Intelligent Design? Intelligent seems a bit comparative: perhaps the designer is relatively dumb but very powerful. But evil: that's seems hard...

Well gosh! This settles it for me. With such a compelling and logical argument, how could anyone not believe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrrj5jWd68 I just wonder how he can prattle on about the banana being perfectly curved and sized for easy insertion with a straight face.

An interesting article titled Whose “War” Is It, Anyway?: Exposing Chris Mooney’s Attack on Intelligent Design over at http://www.discovery.org For those that have read Mooney's book

There is going to be a debate at my university here in Norway, with a Paul A. Nelson from the Discovery Institute, and on the other side of the table professor Bernt Walther from the dep. of Molecular Biology. Here is the intro: There was also a netmeeting with Nelson in the newspaper...

Anyone read this book yet on evolution and intelligent design? http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Darwinism-Intelligent-Design/dp/1596980133

That's right kiddos, it's time once again to meet your fellow New England skeptics! SATURDAY, July 22, 2006 at noon o'clock, Steven Novella, prez of the New Engand Skeptical Society and host of a little show called The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (there's also a really super smart co-host...

<still not allowed to post urls yet, sorry for not making a clickable link> www .google. com/trends?q=evolution%2C+intelligent+design Very interesting trend. The actual number of google searches on evolution far outweighs that of intelligent design (for the most part), yet the news reports...

Forget if God designed a flagella, the bigger question is Why did she designed things badly. Did God use a sub-subcontractor? I say God is an she because God spent a lot of time designing woman and look to have designed man as an after thought or ran out of time. One of those last minute...

James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, explains how to design things: He built 5127 prototypes. Now if only vacuum cleaners could reproduce with variation.

I have in the past debated an odd person who seems on the surface to reject all religious establishments. However, it seems this person also is obsessed with odd ideas without basis in reality. For example, he has no reason to believe in god (or more accurately, thinks there is one but that...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=news&start=0&num=2&q=http://today.reuters.com/sponsoredby/amex/article.aspx%3Ftype%3DinnovationNews%26storyID%3D2006-01-19T155619Z_01_L19111788_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CATHOLIC-EVOLUTION.xml&e=50179 Yeah to some at the Vatican for standing up

Hugh Ross lists on his site 154 parameters he says are required for intelligent life to exist in the universe. Then, as far as I can tell, he assigns probabilities to each of these and concludes there is less that a 1 in 10^282 chance intelligent life would occur. He concludes that a divine...

Do you believe? Frank Drake did (and Special Agent Fox Mulder): It's a bit dated now, as it doesn't include things like the need for a Jupiter like planet to suck up comets and asteroids, that would otherwise pepper planets with simple life forms on them. PS. First post here

From the New York Times snip Talk amongst yourselves

Last week, a new game called The Movies was released. A sort of a Sim Hollywood or Movie Studio Tycoon, where you run a movie studio; hire actors, train directors, research movie technology, shoot movies, etc, win awards, etc.. But in addition to that, you're actually making movies that you can...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051110/ts_nm/religion_robertson_dc So let me get this straight - Pat is identifying an "Intelligent Designer" God with the Christian God - Jehovah? Isn't there ample proof that Jehovah was an idiot?

Catholic professor testifies on behalf of school policy’s foes

I was lucky enough to hear David Attenborough speak at the Cheltenham Literature Festival recently. He enthralled and amused the audience with stories about his 50 years in TV, and finally came to his latest project, Life In The Undergrowth, which is about the insects and other creatures which...

I don't know how many of you have seen this but: Intelligent Design vs. Baseball Bat. Enjoy.

Some people have asked if there was some kind of criteria for determining intelligent design. So I thaught I would post this link. It's a long read but it's full of math and philosophy! You know, the stuff you guys love. Anyway, fire away...

So, why does the Universe seem so comprehensible and completely "intelligible?"

We've had a spate of articles in my local newspaper recently on the topic of Intelligent Design. The following letter to the editor was published in today's paper: I e-mailed Mr. Russo and provided him with several critiques of Michael Behe's book...

http://www.venganza.org/ I like the Flying Spaghetti Monster fish. CBL

I just free-associated this, and I throw it out for criticism: What if we try to contaminate the Intelligent Design meme by reframing it as the claim that the prototype human body came out of some one or some thing's laboratory through a process of invention and engineering, like in Mary...

Harold Evans, a former editor of The Times and The Sunday Times (see his wikipedia entry) has a weekly opinion column on BBC Radio 4 - Friday's piece was on Bush, science and intelligent design and is rather good. It's available online via this page (under Point of View, A).

The Sunday Telegraph this week included this article by Christopher Booker (see Talking with Dinosaurs): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/07/nbook07.xml I have submitted the following repost. I t would be great if we could get some more responses to that article -...

There is a move afoot to Google Bomb Intelligent Design so that the National Center for Science Education’s "Intelligent Design" Not Accepted by Most Scientists paper comes on top (or at least high up) on Google searches: Link: In summary, if you have a blog or website, link to the NCSE’s...

Clearly an intelligent being had a hand in crafting this artifact. If I found this lying in a field I would *have* to conclude that it was designed for a purpose. There's simply no other explanation... [/sarcasm] ...because I have poor logic skills and an even poorer imagination.