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Jason Spaceman



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 08 2007,02:36   

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By Chuck Colson
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Wed, Feb. 07 2007 11:51 AM ET

A couple of years ago on this program, I had this to say of the book Doubts about Darwin by my friend Thomas Woodward: “The motivation for [the] . . . founders of the [intelligent] design movement to instigate this ‘reformation within science’ is a passion for intellectual truth-telling.”

Woodward displays this passion for truth-telling yet again in his marvelous new book, Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design. What Woodward wrote about just a few years ago is even truer today. Amid a firestorm of criticism and abuse from committed Darwinists, the intelligent design movement continues to press forward, gaining scientific credibility and even grudging respect from some evolutionists. But as Woodward shows, there’s still a long way to go.

Because the more respect intelligent design gains, the more alarmed the Darwinists become. Their thinking goes something like this: It’s one thing for those religious people to talk about a creator God—that’s religion; but now they are talking about science—so, they figure, “Let’s label it religion.” Woodward writes, “These sentiments were echoed in public declarations, verbally and in print, by Darwinian defenders, warning . . . that Intelligent Design is religion, not science . . . This statement,” Woodward continues, “emerged as the number-one talking point for Intelligent Design opponents [over the last few years].”


Read it here.

   
JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 08 2007,10:39   

Excellent.  I've been looking forward to a book like this.  It must have been quite a challenge to distil all the science done in ID laboratories all over the world into a one-volume summary.  Now we have a concise explanation of all the ground-breaking basic research which underlies...

What?  Oh.

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ofro



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 08 2007,11:54   

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… the intelligent design movement continues to press forward, gaining scientific credibility…


Is that a admission that at least at one point the intelligent design movement didn’t have scientific credibility?

  
Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 08 2007,12:23   

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By Chuck Colson
Christian Post Guest Columnist
Wed, Feb. 07 2007 11:51 AM ET

A couple of years ago on this program, I had this to say of the book Doubts about Darwin by my friend Thomas Woodward: “The motivation for [the] . . . founders of the [intelligent] design movement to instigate this ‘reformation within science’ is a passion for intellectual truth-telling.”

Woodward displays this passion for truth-telling yet again in his marvelous new book, Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design. What Woodward wrote about just a few years ago is even truer today. Amid a firestorm of criticism and abuse from committed Darwinists, the intelligent design movement continues to press forward, gaining scientific credibility and even grudging respect from some evolutionists. But as Woodward shows, there’s still a long way to go.

Because the more respect intelligent design gains, the more alarmed the Darwinists become. Their thinking goes something like this: It’s one thing for those religious people to talk about a creator God—that’s religion; but now they are talking about science—so, they figure, “Let’s label it religion.” Woodward writes, “These sentiments were echoed in public declarations, verbally and in print, by Darwinian defenders, warning . . . that Intelligent Design is religion, not science . . . This statement,” Woodward continues, “emerged as the number-one talking point for Intelligent Design opponents [over the last few years].”


Read it here.

Let me guess: this is all based on 'research' Colson did when he broke into Richard Dawkins' office late at night, right?

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millipj



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 08 2007,16:20   

Hey, there might even be a definition of what the Theory of Intelligent Design actually is.

  
improvius



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 08 2007,16:38   

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Hey, there might even be a definition of what the Theory of Intelligent Design actually is.

Yep, it's described in the article:
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What they have in common is what Woodward calls a “scientific paradigm” that allows for design in any natural mechanism that can’t be explained simply by chance or purely natural causes. His meticulously researched book clearly explains the scientific reasoning behind this paradigm.

So if we can't explain it, then it might have been designed.  I'll bet you can't argue with that!

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 08 2007,19:51   

The proper question is not "what is designed" - the proper question is "was it engineered". (Imnsho.)

Besides, we do know who/what built any given living cell - its parent cell, that's who/what, and that should be apparent to anybody. (pun fully intended.)

Henry

  
Kristine



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(Permalink) Posted: Feb. 09 2007,15:00   

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Woodward displays this passion for truth-telling yet again in his marvelous new book, Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design. What Woodward wrote about just a few years ago is even truer today. Amid a firestorm of criticism and abuse from committed Darwinists, the intelligent design movement continues to press forward, gaining scientific credibility and even grudging respect from some evolutionists. But as Woodward shows, there’s still a long way to go.
Oh. Stupid me, I thought he was talking about Intelligent Resign.  ;)

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