This really scares me. What is the right’s indoctrination-machine teaching its disciples? Maybe: “Don’t trust your eyes! It’s under control. Sleep well. Vote GOP.”

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God created Adam as a Male? He then made Eve from Adams Rib as a Female. Then God decreed that Adam and Eve should NOT have sex. Once they had, two sons were produced who grew and married.. Whom?

God was PO’d with the world he had made, so he chose a drunken lecher named Noah to build a boat and fill it with two each of all the worlds animals. When the water receded, Noah and his family proceeded to re-populate the world. (So we can’t all be decended from Adam & Eve).

Then God got mad at various groups of humans that he was resposible for creating, and set his religeous followers against the rest in an effort to get rid of them. He failed. They are still here. Then he punishes a group of his followers who were trying to reach him by inflicting them with different languages so they could not communicate.

In short, God spent the whole of the old testatment relating stories of incest rape and murder in his name and then begats a son by seducing the innocent wife of one of his believers.

The son that God produced, set out to change the rules laid down by Dad in the Old Testament. and for his trouble was murdered by Romans who later chose to change history and blame God’s chosen people (the Jews), for his death, to give them an excuse to get rid of them. (They are still trying).

Then the Romans took over christianity and continued their rape and pilage of the known world.

These new religeuous leaders created this set of rules. 1 the world is flat. 2 the sun and all the planets revolve around the Earth. 3. Medicine was condemned and doctors killed. 4. All other religions were heresey. 5. Kill all heretics. 6. Torture maim and kill anyone who questioned the church’s authority. 7. The Jews are resposible for all evil. 8. The Muslims are resposible for all evil. 9. Every war since Constantin has been a religious war of Christians trying to foist these beliefs on the rest of the world.

Finaly, (I know, I know, I’m ranting) christians now believe that the aquisition of wealth is christian, and each of their money grubbing neo fascist spokepersons will stop at nothing in helping the ignorant to achieve their leaders un-christian beliefs.

If this is inteligent design, we are gonna need a lot more small busses.

In the context of ID versus evolution, ID begins with the idea that there is a superior intelligent being who created the universe. ID then goes on to try to find aspects of the universe that fit into this idea. The basic initial idea is never questioned. Evolution, on the other hand, begins with observations of the universe (physical, chemical, biological, etc.) and then develops a coherent theory into which these facts fit. As new facts arise that challenge the theory, the theory is either modified or discarded (if facts PROVE that the theory is false). To this point there are no facts (obsevations) that PROVE evolution is an invalid theory.

In science, everything, even including the theory of gravity, is open for revision when the evidence warrants revision.

Scientists do not attempt to establish infallible dogma – that’s what religion does. Maybe your long experience in religion makes it hard for you to see things in this other way.

When scientists say that biological evolution is a fact, they mean it in the sense that they can say “an apple has fallen”. There are millions, maybe billions, of cases of observations that create a very solid case.

If suitable evidence arose to suggest a rival explanation, then scientists would give that rival explanation consideration. However, there is no evidence for intelligent design that has withstood scientific scrutiny – and the same goes for other forms of Creationism.

So, scientists never say evolution is infallible. They just point out that intelligent design is theology, not real science at all, and no Christian scientist has been able to present a scientific counterargument that holds water.

“Comparing this to the Constitution, it reads pretty clearly to me that they are against the favoring of any religion over another, and Intelligent Design promotes no religion over another, except to counter the government funded atheist religion that is promoted through the teaching of evolution.”

The Constitution forbids not just favoring of particular religions, but the favoring of religion versus secularity. Intelligent Design is basically an effort to sneak religion into the public schools by claiming it is not religion, but science. If the courts consider both requirements of the Establishment Clause, ID cannot possibly pass scrutiny. It is too clearly a pretext.

The last clause of the comment, in which the commenter forgets the ‘pretext’ he/she is engaged in and starts ranting about state imposed atheism had me laughing out loud.

Seems that this article gives a very accurate description of the implications of what you’ve written. You might want to think about that yourself.