[Vision2020] Some of you may enjoy this

[Tom Hansen]

Intelligent Design is to science what astrology is to astronomy.

However, this may be premature of me, but, if Intelligent Design were given
precedence over provable/disprovable science I am guessing that George Bush
will appoint Congressman Bill Sali to lead NASA's next deep-space research
program appropriately titled . . .

"Aquarius"
http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Aquarius.mp3

"When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars . . . "

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude oil.  Stop
and think about that.  We call them fossil fuels because they used to be
live stuff . . . now in the ground is turned into crude oil." 

- Bill Sali (September 21, 2006)


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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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