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Roger Ebert on Panspermia, Creationism and Prometheus.
« on: Jun 15, 2012, 09:50:45 PM »
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Intelligent Design is the disguise by which Creationists are attempting to infiltrate American schoolrooms and textbooks with their theology. I have no problem at all that they believe God created the heavens, earth and Man, and on the seventh day, he rested. They can even believe that this happened around 10,000 years ago, as about 46% of Americans do.

What I object to is the fraudulent "science" by which they attempt to smuggle this religious belief into classrooms. A Biblical explanation for creation no more belongs in a textbook than any other creation myth, such as the Native American belief than we were all given birth by an Earth Mother, with a Spider Women acting as midwife. Now that ID has been thoroughly debunked, the tactic has shifted to: "Teach the controversy." In science, there is no controversy.
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Re: Roger Ebert on Panspermia, Creationism and Prometheus.
« Reply #1 on: Jun 16, 2012, 11:39:02 AM »
Damn, getting a 404 error
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Re: Roger Ebert on Panspermia, Creationism and Prometheus.
« Reply #2 on: Jun 16, 2012, 11:47:45 AM »
David E. accidentally put the URL in twice. Here's the article.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/06/_one_of_my_creationist.htm
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Re: Roger Ebert on Panspermia, Creationism and Prometheus.
« Reply #3 on: Jun 16, 2012, 04:29:35 PM »
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Re: Roger Ebert on Panspermia, Creationism and Prometheus.
« Reply #4 on: Jun 16, 2012, 09:38:14 PM »
oops  boy is my face red!
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