[lbo-talk] Intelligent Design

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 12:57:11 PDT 2005


I was summarizing the idea that Intelligent Design theories can't deal with imperfection and involves _internal_ contradictions. I wouldn't state it that way exactly (i.e., as "In other words, if God is so smart (in designing us in His image), why are we so imperfect?")

On 7/29/05, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> 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.


> CB: So you think it would be better rhetorically to go to a school board
> meeting and say :
> "In other words, if God is so smart (in designing us in His image), why
> are we so imperfect?" ?

-- Jim Devine "Imagine believing in the control of inflation by curbing the money supply! That is like deciding to stop your dog fouling the sidewalk by plugging up its rear end. It is highly unlikely to succeed, but if it does it kills the hound." -- Michael D. Stephens.

does anyone know who this Stephens is? I couldn't find him via Google,



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