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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (247063)	4/23/2008 3:46:47 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 793801

Are you trying to agree with me or disagree? Yes we violently agree on this straw man: Stein's point, made quite effectively I thought, is that if one diverges from the academic playbook, he or she will suffer with loss of grants, denial of tenure and possibly loss of a career. This equates to a loss of freedom of speech and inquiry in a country that is founded on individual freedom. However wrong this behavior is it does not support via fact or evidence a position that disagrees with this academic playbook. I also agree with "The theory of Darwinian Evolution does provide a plausible scenario on how life evolved once it existed on earth." I believe that these are your words so perhaps you also agree with them. I also agree with "The theory of Darwinian Evolution does not provide a explanation on how life came about in the first place." But it does explain the process that occurred afterwards which includes an explanation on how you and all other earth life came into being. The theory of Darwinian Evolution also does not include (or require) "a God" that is changing the rules or "performing intelligent design" on the life that exists on this planet. I am fine with the "theory of religious creation" also long as it is limited to these three things: 1. God determined the initial physical laws of the Universe. 2. God initiated the big-bang thus creating all the matter in the universe. 3. God's Universe provided the conditions necessary to create the first living organism to exist. (aka. the spark of first life) That's it. These are currently the only things that Science cannot provide us with accurate answers on. The scientific method tells us that "God does not intervene in the evolution of life on Earth". Thus no intelligent designer needs to exist. If you want to extend the concept of God beyond the three things that I mentioned them you [or Ben Stein] need to provide testable evidence that demonstrates that God intervenes on Earth. No I haven't seen the movie.