[Vision2020] Some of you may enjoy this

[Pat Kraut]

"It is sponsored by Eternal Communications Ministries, which seems to be
connected with the local Nazarene Church."
If you actually looked into this Ralph you would find that it is a
interdenominational group. But, you are a great example of tunnel vision and
I doubt you will attend or actually get the to whole.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Nielsen" <nielsen at uidaho.edu>
To: <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
Cc: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>; <ebrannon at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:26 AM
Subject: 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