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Religious believers have no right to peddle their beliefs in a climate where no
one will have a choice whether to listen to their beliefs or not, and will be
graded on whether they listened to their beliefs or not. That is religious
bullying and most definitely should be illegal. The ACLU therefore has all
rights to go after any religion that wants to force their religious fantasies
down other's throats without their consent or choice. We already get all the
proselytizing we want or need from religious bumper stickers. 

Now what kind of idiot would create millions of failed species, for example, the
dodo bird? What kind of imbecile would put a hip bone in a whale? That's like
putting hummingbird wings on a hippopotamus! And just look at all the human
"design" flaws: weak knees, a weak back, an optic nerve placed in *FRONT* of the
retina instead of *BEHIND* it -- doh! And just why are men piecemealed together
with parts from a woman, so they would have to be born things like
non-functional nipples? The laryngeal nerve in a giraffe extends eleven feet
from it's cranium down to it's lungs and them back up to it's larynx, which is
situated a mere one foot away from it's cranium. A competent designer would have
routed the nerve directly to the larynx (one foot) versus the highly incompetent
twenty foot round trip. And why does a camel look like it was a horse designed
by a committee?

Even if we pretend that the world were "designed", there is absolutely no
evidence of the designer. How can you have an intelligent design without a
designer? Did the designer die a premature death? Or maybe the designer is
afraid (or embarrassed because of their shoddy design practices) to come out in
public where everybody can see them? Now that's what I would call a deadbeat
Father!

Believers of "intelligent" design are like a used car salesmen who tries to sell
a "brand name design" car that has five wheels, each wheel a different size,
with the steering column in the back seat, and the car will explode if you
exceed 55mph. Furthermore, the car would have no absolutely no identifying
emblems or vehicle ID so that you could find out when and where it was
manufactured and who manufactured it. In fact, you would have no way of knowing
who manufactured the vehicle because manufacturer would had made sure that no
evidence would ever become public. I wouldn't buy a lemon like that, but that is
exactly what believers in "intelligent" design are trying to sell us -- nothing
but lemons!

"The creationists have this creator who is evil, who is small-minded, who is
malevolent, and who is not very bright and can't even get his science right.
Creationists have made their creator in their own image, in my view."
-- Ian Plimer, The Skeptic, Vol. 13, No 2

Members of the scientific establishment are well aware that the claim of
evolution, especially the evolution of man, is backed up with the rock solid
evidence of fossils, whereas all the religious establishment has to back up
their "intelligent" design theory are mere words on a piece of paper. The social
implications of politically and secularly active religious establishment have
been disastrous. The religious establishment used sanctification of believers as
an excuse to wage "Holy" wars all throughout the period of the Crusades and
Inquisitions. The religious establishment used belief in an intelligent designer
as an excuse to send 300,000 children to their death during the Children's
Crusade of 1212AD.

But it is too late for "intelligent" design believers to back out of their
blunder now, as they have too much vested interest in keeping it alive: a vested
interest in keeping donations up, a vested interest in keeping church attendance
up, and a vested interest in keeping from getting egg all over their faces
again, just like they did when they promoted the Earth-centric theory instead of
the theories of Galileo and Copernicus. (Religious) history obviously likes to
repeat itself.

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   Authored by The_Sage (the.sage at cox.net)
   Posted via the Internet newsgroup service
   May 24th, 2005

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