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At 10:30 19/01/2006, Richard wrote:
>The question of intelligent design is one that baffles
>some of our clientele (and, surely, some of us), but this
>Catholic (meaning "universal") decision may help about
>a billion people to at least accept the idea of evolution
>if they haven't done so already. OK, that's not a majority,
>but it's a start...
It's not only Roman Catholics who find the Intelligent Design campaign
untenable and embarrassing. The Christians in Science website
http://www.cis.org.uk has various carefully-argued articles opposing what
one of them calls the ID "Trojan horse". For example:
http://www.cis.org.uk/resources/articles/article_archive/EN_IDarticle.pdf
Other links on the CIS website reveal how unhelpful it is - for those
working to persuade Christians, for example, not to resist mainstream
science - when a media spokesman for science portrays science as utterly
incompatible with all religious faith...
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Awaken curiosity and they feed their own minds for a lifetime.
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Ian Russell
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