[Vision2020] Some of you may enjoy this

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I am a scientist and I think I will go The subject is of interest, even though it is not science. One should keep an open mind.

Roger
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From: Ralph Nielsen nielsen at uidaho.edu
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:26:55 -0800
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Some of you may enjoy this

> 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
> 
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