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

In article <481748C0.5A37419D@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bill Bonde 
( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal 
attack' ) said...

[...] 

> What if evolution could do it and an
> intelligence could do it too?

There are many more such "what ifs" floating around 
us. What if Ra could do it? What if Marty Feldman 
could do it? What if the universe is just a movie-of-
the-week in some higher-order cosmos? 

We can invent any number of stories and theories to 
describe any phenomenon. The point is to try to find 
the story sup****ted by the evidences. And the 
evidences, so far, point to evolution. 
 
> What if God did it? 

Okay, I'll bite: 

When did God do it? How do you verify the dates your 
theory puts forth?

How did God do it? What are the specific methods God 
used?

How does saying "God did it" provide details about the 
geographical distribution of plants and animals?

How does saying "God did it" explain why we never find 
the skeleton of a mammal encased in Cambrian 
sediments? 

Make sure your answers are precise, quantifiable, and 
verifiable -- Bible verses do not count. Be prepared 
to deliver additional arguments that can convince top 
scientific minds in a variety of disciplines, if your 
explanations contradict well-established findings in 
geography, cosmology, paleontology, etc.

> You don't leave potential possibilities open when you 
> conclusively insist on one answer before the facts 
> are all in.

Alas, that's just an old, dishonest creationist 
deceit: trying to blur the line between keeping an 
open mind and accepting that all ideas are equally 
valid. It just isn't so. Sorry, Bill, but facts enough 
have been found to draw reasonable inferences about 
life's past. You just don't like where the evidence 
leads.

Your side lost the battle long ago, before Darwin ever 
wrote a word. Leading scientists of the day, serious 
Christians, did try to align geology and biology with 
the creation accounts in Genesis. They couldn't make 
it work. But they, unlike certain later Christians, 
were honest enough to admit the discrepancy, and wise 
enough to trust the conclusions drawn from the 
evidences above literalist theologies. They did not 
contort science to fit faith. 

Despite this, you want science to act as if 
creationist assertions haven't been disproved a 
hundred thousand times already. You want scientists to 
spend eternity attempting to revive a centuries-dead 
horse of creationism. 

But science does not waste time with dead, discredited 
theories. And for this, you accuse scientists of being 
close-minded.

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Brian E. Clark