[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[David Cake]

At 7:47 AM -0500 5/12/07, David P. Henderson wrote:
>On 05 Dec 2007, at 01:14, David Cake wrote:
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>>  Š ID is not creationism.
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>
>That is not correct. ID is nothing more than a name change in 
>reaction to a US Supreme Court ruling on teaching Creationism back in 
>the late 1980s. Check out the NOVA documentary on the failed attempt 
>of the Dover, PA School Board to insert an ID statement into the 
>science curriculum: specifically "Chapter 10: Separation of Church 
>and State." The documentary is available online at <http://
>www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/>.

	ID is a creationist strategy, and is an 
attempt to slip the basic tenets of creationism 
through in disguise. IDers are creationists, but 
that does not mean ID is creationism - in 
disguising creationism as ID, they are forced to 
give up a few of its tenets and make it pretend 
to be science. That pretence does, however, 
change the actual theory espoused (and IMO opens 
it up to a weakness to more direct scientific 
attack).