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Vatican and Intelligent Design

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Another news item that’s a followup on a previous post on the Intelligent Design Smokescreen:

“But it is not correct from a methodological point of view to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science,” he wrote, calling intelligent design unscientific. “It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.”

— Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, in the Jan. 16-17 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, official newspaper of the Vatican as quoted in The New York Times

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Intelligent Design Smokescreen

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Intelligent Design is a smokescreen that purports to be based on rigorous science, but is simply an attempt to squeeze neo-creationism in the back door. In fact, NPR reported that according to evidence presented as part of the case that was settled today in Pennsylvania prohibiting the teaching of Intelligent Design in school, the original manuscript of one of the touchstone ID texts, Pandas and People, had 150 references to “creationism” that were merely replaced with “Intelligent Design”.

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