Indigo -

Good for you!

Intolerance and hate of any stripe, be it fundamentalist or humanist, liberal 
or conservative, should be called out and decried.

I am curious as to why the proponents of intelligent design keep trying to 
pass this thing off as "science" when the argument so naturally belongs to 
philosophical or religious views. The author of the article has every right to 
present his views but in publishing them in a scientific journal he also places 
his credibility as a scientist up for scrutiny and up for question.

One of the basic components of science is skepticism and the constant testing 
of theory against observable and measurable data. Science has been wrong in 
the past and it will continue to find and publish its own flaws. I fear that 
intelligent design is a self-fulfilling theory based more on faith than on 
critical thinking. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Cheers!
Dave

David Harvey
Conservator
Los Angeles, California  USA

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