Re: Ben Stein's Movie EXPELLED - Could we have been "designed" by Space Aliens?

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 Apr 28, 10:42 am, "Donald E. Flood" <Jeha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "dennisosm" <dennisk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Hi folks,
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> > An implication from Ben Stein's movie "Expelled: No Intelligence
> > Allowed" for me was that "intelligent design" _need not_ require "God
> > language" but simply a designer, the designer simply being an older,
> > higher intelligence -- "space aliens" ;-)
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> Correct. ID would not prove supernaturalism or the existence of God.
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* So why would scientists be afraid of it?

They're not.  I suppose that they view it like astrology.  ID is not 
testable science.  It is not verifiable nor falsifiable, especially the 
latter.

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> > Now how would one discern that a particular biological process was the
> > product of "intelligent design" rather than simply random processes.
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> Evolution is NOT random!!!
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*Would characterizing it as "unguided" (essentially random action on a
*weighted terrain) make you feel better?

Are miscarriages "unguided"?  I suppose, in some sense, they are.  Where a

fertilized egg lands in the uterus is, somewhat, a matter of chance.  If
you 
or I ended-up in the wrong place, implantation would not have occurred, 
which means that we both would have ended-up in the toilet or at the 
landfill.  In any case, I would not be writing this and you would not be 
reading it, either.