Re: [LM_NET] intelligent design

[Debra Allen <kidsbooks2002@YAHOO.COM>]

I would like to contribute the following link to this
discussion.  It is a list of 500 scientists who are
skeptical that Darwinism is a viable explanation of
the complexity of the universe:

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=660

Debra Allen
Librarian
Sudduth Elementary
Starkville MS

--- Shannon Wham <sdeanwham@CHARTER.NET> wrote:

> Robert Eiffert wrote <If my budget would allow me to
> purchase material on Kennedy assassination
> conspiracy theories and Nasca Plains lines being UFO
> 
> landing sites, I might look into some ID books. >
> 
> Sir, I'm sorry, but that statement is uncalled for.
> It will only serve to raise the level of rhetoric to
> uncomfortable levels. I'm fairly certain I'm not the
> only supporter of ID who is on this listserv, even
> if I may be the only one who will defend it. I try
> not to insult the beliefs of atheists and other
> ideologies I don't agree with and on behalf of those
> out there who may be silent, I'd appreciate the same
> courtesy.
> 
> Shannon D. Wham, Librarian
> Bell Street MS
> 600 Peachtree St.
> Clinton, SC 29325
> sdwham@laurens56.k12.sc.us
> sdeanwham@charter.net
> 
> "Id temporis consilium bonum videbatur"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Robert Eiffert <beiffert@COMCAST.NET> wrote: 
> > I just bought _How Do We Know the Nature of Human
> Origins_ (Rosen); 
> > Intelligent Design isn't in the index, though
> there are four pages 
> > discussing how creationism gradually lost
> scientific credibility from 
> > the 1600's to late 1800's (Hook to Lyall).
> > 
> > ID has been discredited as a scientific theory
> ("Most scientists say 
> > "alternative" to evolution isn't a theory at all 
> >
>
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002522889_evolution27.html?syndication=rss&source=education.xml&items=34>).
> 
> > The Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case
> ruled ID is religious 
> > in nature, not a scientific theory ("'Breathtaking
> Inanity': How 
> > Intelligent Design Flunked Its Test Case" Time
> Magazine 
> >
>
<http://www.time.com/time/health/printout/0,8816,1142625,00.html>).
> 
> > There is little to no peer-reviewed work on any
> findings supporting ID. 
> > If my budget would allow me to purchase material
> on Kennedy 
> > assassination conspiracy theories and Nasca Plains
> lines being UFO 
> > landing sites, I might look into some ID books.
> > 
> > Sunday's (March 5) Doonesbury - "Situational
> Science is about respecting 
> > BOTH sides of a scientific argument, not just the
> one supported by 
> > facts!" <http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/db/>
> hits the nail on the head.
> > 
> > Myer's "The proper reverence due those who have
> gone before." 
> >
>
<http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/the_proper_reverence_due_those_who_have_gone_before>
> 
> > does one of the best explanations on why we follow
> the evidence.
> > 
> > Robert Eiffert
> > Librarian, Pacific MS  Vancouver WA
> > pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library
> beiffert@egreen.wednet.edu
> > Librarian in the Middle Blog: www.beiffert.net 
> robert@beiffert.net
> > 
> > Disagreement with dominant ideologies and moral
> codes is exactly what the principle of free
> expression is designed to protect. We don’t need
> the First Amendment to protect speech that offends
> nobody and agrees with conventional norms.
> > Marjorie Heins
> <http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0316-30.htm>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > K FALLON wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >   
> > >  Do any of you have Intelligent Design books in
> your collection and could you recommend titles?
> > >   
> > >  Thanks,
> > >  Kristina Fallon
> > >  Robert Morris School Librarian
> > >  yasumani@verizon.net
> > >   
> > > 
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> >
>
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