[lbo-talk] Intelligent Design:

[Jim Devine]

I dunno. It seems that if people come to the school board and say that
the public schools must teach so-called "intelligent design theory,"
the best response is to attack ID, not religion itself. For this
purpose, the best way to go is to emphasize (with SJ Gould) the
separation of church and science.

On 7/29/05, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> Jim D:
> 
> In other words, if God is so smart (in designing us in His image), why
> are we so imperfect?
> 
> ^^^^
> CB: The key to irreligious criticism is: Humans make God. God doesn't make
> humans.
> 
> The "intelligent" design of God is due to the fact that we make God in _our_
> own image, the inverse of the famous passage from the Bible.
> 
> Intelligent design is the conceit that only a "Big Human" could make
> something so intelligible to humans.
> 
> 
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