What do you think of the book: Unintelligent Design?

1 Rock, regarding your answer "Unintelligent":"Christianity will eventually go the way of the pagan religions. " And the sooner the better.

2 Schelli,The fact that you and I agree on anything scares me to death.

3 Apparently none of the answerers has read the book. I haven't either, which is why I didn't answer. I do know that natural selection is an unintelligent process to give design.

Now, since Rock didn't see my critique of his answer when he posted it in another thread, I'll repeat it here in the hopes that he is not like a creationist and will not keep repeating the same fallacies over and over:Rock: "Science is a method for gathering and analyzingevidence to gain knowledge... This makes for knowledge you can have the most confidence in. "Science is NOT "A" method. Science uses many methods and one of the methods used by science -- the hypothetico-deductive method -- is used a lot outside science.

No one has a perfect definition of science, but a better one would be "science is the study of the physical universe. "The reason we have confidence in science is not because of a method, but because of the evidence permitted. ALL evidence is personal experience, but science limits itself to personal experience that is the same for everyone under approximately the same circumstances.

This means that there are lots of things that science is incapable of studying. "Religion relies strictly on faith. God says it, that's it.

Their problem is trying to figure out what God said. "That's the militant atheist myth, but it isn't true. Religion also relies on evidence.

The major difference between religion and science is that religion accepts personal experience that is not necessarily the same for everyone under approximately the same circumstances. What you have described is not religion in total, but Fundamentalism. Fundamentalism has stated that the Bible is without error -- inerrant.

That leads them into all kinds of problems: theological as well as scientific. "To try to equivocate creationism and evolution by saying they are both just theories is ludicrous. Evolution has a mountain of scientific study behind it.

Creationism has none. "That's not the way to evaluate theories. Nor is it true.

Remember, the 18th and early 19th century creationists had evidence. What you mean to say is that "creationism has no evidence that is either valid and not explained by some other hypothesis". What you want to do, Rock, is look at the evidence AGAINST.

Creationism has, literally, mountains of evidence AGAINST it. That's why it is a falsified scientific theory."Religion is afraid of science. " In general, NO!

In fact, religion has been of great assistance to science in at least 2 ways:1 Provided ready-made the assumptions about the physical universe necessary to do science.2. Up until the late 19th century, provided income to scientists. Darwin got lucky; his daddy bought him a town so he could live off the rents.

Most scientist in Darwin's day were Anglican ministers. The Anglican Church paid their salaries. Again, Fundamentalism is afraid of science.

That's because Fundamentalism worships a literal, inerrant Bible and science shows that god to be false."Christianity will eventually go the way of the pagan religions. "Probably not. Unless the Fundamentalists win the internal battle and manage to convince all Christians to worship their god instead of God.

However, that hasn't happened yet. Remember, it has been CHRISTIANS who have been the plaintiffs in all the court cases to keep creationism from being taught in public schools. Not an atheist or agnostic as plaintiff.

Perhaps you should consider why that is so.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.