[Vision2020] Some of you may enjoy this

[Ralph Nielsen]

Thought provoking, indeed! Intelligent Design is nothing but warmed- 
over Creationism. It is not science, but religion, as you will soon  
see if you look up <sciphre.org>. It is sponsored by Eternal  
Communications Ministries, which seems to be connected with the local  
Nazarene Church.

Scott Minnich is well known in creationist circles. He has yet to win  
the Nobel Prize for disproving the Theory of Evolution, one of the  
strongest theories in the whole of science. If he wishes to believe  
that the universe was designed by a god or a goddess or a committee  
of super-smart supernatural creators, he is welcome to do so. But  
this is NOT science.

I wonder if he has read A Dictionary of Creation Myths, by David and  
Margaret Leeming (Oxford University Press, cl994). It contains 330  
pages of information on Intelligent Designers and Supernatural  
Creators. Take your pick.

I predict that the forthcoming lecture at the U of I Law School  
Auditorium will draw a capacity crowd. Not of scientists, but of true- 
believing, wishful thinkers of the Christian fundamentalist type.

Ralph



[Vision2020] Some of you may enjoy this

Pat Kraut pkraut at moscow.com
Tue Nov 21 21:36:12 PST 2006

I recently attended a lecture with this Institute where someone from a
Jewish school who talked about Lebanon and Israel and a professor  
from ISU
with 'Just war Theory' shared the platform and it was a most interesting
discussion. The combining of science, philosophy and religion makes  
for a
very thought provoking evening.

Dear Friends

Over the last couple of years lectures have been sponsored at the  
University
of Idaho on the Theory of Evolution as the source of life's  
diversity.  The
Theory purports that all life forms have evolved from a common  
ancestor by
natural selection of chance mutations.  However, not all scientists  
accept
chance as the mechanism responsible for all the diversity and  
complexity of
life we witness today.  As an alternative, they believe that life and  
its
diversity testifies of design by a supernatural force, referred to as
Intelligent Design.  That position is alleged by secularists as  
Creationism
disguised as pseudo-science.  Although Christians believe the  
supernatural
force is God, in the realm of science the force is not identified,  
only that
a master design is more feasible than chance.  In an effort to provide
balanced information on controversial topics consistent with its  
objective,
the Sciphre Institute is sponsoring a lecture on Intelligent Design:  
What it
is and what it is not, by Dr. Scott Minnich, a microbiologist at the
University of Idaho.   The lecture is scheduled at 7:00 p.m. Friday,
December 1st, in the Law School auditorium, University of Idaho. The  
public
is welcome and questions on the idea of design will be discussed.


Dr. Ernie Brannon

Sciphre Institute

208-882-7907

ebrannon at moscow.com