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posted by: preceptlady (reply) post date: 09.29.05 (3:29 pm) I like the 12 step program for Evolutionists. It that really a program? posted by: LynnKramer (reply) post date: 09.30.05 (3:26 am) Evolutionists Anonymous: A 12 Step Program for Those who Suffer from Methodological Naturalism Posted in: Humor The following 12 steps have worked for those of us who were previously suffering from the bondage of evolutionary theory. If you happen to be suffering as we once were, we suggest that you give them a try. 1. We admitted we were powerless over Evolutionary Theory and that our research in the various fields of science had become horrendously unfruitful as a result. 2. Came to the valid inference that an Intelligent Cause much greater than time, chance, and natural processes was responsible for the fine-tuning of the universe and complexity in biology. And we understood that such a postulate could restore us to scientific integrity. 3. Made a decision to turn our efforts and research over to the duty of detecting specified complexity in nature as it was placed by an Intelligent Cause and committed ourselves to leaving specific questions about said Cause open for later philosophical discussion. 4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our scientific methods and our previous dogmatic, antisupernatural biases. 5. Admitted to an unspecified designer, to ourselves, and to another scientist the exact nature of our errors. 6. Were entirely ready commit to a robust ID research program in an effort to make amends for years of methodological naturalism. 7. Humbly asked the unspecified designer to remove our naturalistic presuppositions. 8. Made a list of all ID theorists we had publically slandered, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made public amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would jeopardize their tenure, research grants, or hopes for a fair dissertation examination. 10. Continued to take inventory of our scientific methodology and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. Sought through hypotheses, testing, and experimentation to improve our ability to detect design in nature, hoping only for a better understanding of irreducibly complex biological systems and for research grants to further such investigation. 12. Having been set free from dogmatic methodological naturalism as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other suffering evolutionists whenever possible, and to practice these basic ID postulates in all of our scientific affairs to the best of our ability. Although these previous 12 steps are only a suggestion, they have been incredibly successful in helping many a confused, depressed, and hopeless scientist break free from the bondage of macro-evolution and subsequently live a life of complete scientific satisfaction and integrity . . . one day at a time. posted by: PastorDave (reply) post date: 09.30.05 (5:28 am) Funny. I'm looking for Evolutionists to engage you in a sincere, intelligent, quality debate. posted by: preceptlady (reply) post date: 09.30.05 (8:00 am) No, I am not suffering from that...other things maybe but not that. Good Post posted by: LynnKramer (reply) post date: 10.17.05 (9:21 am) I Dr. Forbush would take a look at the following web article, then I would like to read his response to any part of it, or its entireity. I have long felt that Darwinism is a religious cult. And that he is hippicritical in this his regard for evolution v intelligent design. http://www.catholicintl.com/noncatholicissues/devolution.htm |
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I’d like here to pursue further the psychology of theory change. It seems that scientists are increasingly reacting to intelligent design in terms of the stages of grief when someone is confronted with a catastrophe. Intelligent design represents nothing less than a catastrophe to conventional materialistic science, committed as it is to an atheistic understanding of the physical world. That’s because if we’re right, it’s not just evolutionary theory that must change but our very conception of science, which must open itself to intelligence as a fundamental power in nature. Recall that the stages of grief are usually the following: