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

"Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )" 
<tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> David Johnston wrote:
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>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:58:31 +0000, "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique
>> allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
>> <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> >So there's no possible way to discuss ID scientifically? What if
>> >> >space aliens did affect the earth's biote? In this hypothetical,
>> >> >you are excluding what actually happened from study. That doesn't
>> >> >sound like what science is about.
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>> >> If you can't detect it, you can't study it.  Science requires
>> >> observations, not merely truth.
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>> >What you are saying is that detection is impossible even in
>> >principle, or you'd be arguing similarly against string theory.
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>> String theory is a different but not particularly more complicated
>> interpretation of the same observations as I understand it.
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> The reason that "string theory" meshes with reality is that there
> are an infinite number of string theories and they just pick one
> that fits all observations. That's very close to the "God did it"
> idea because every time you give a Creationist some observation,
> say fossils, he changes his "theory" to mesh with that, "God put
> the fossils in there to trick us, he did."
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There are NOT an infinite number of string theories.  Where in the hell
are 
you getting this nonsense???