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**Wolfgang** · December 13th, 2006, 10:46 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
On 13 Dec 2006 21:34:05 GMT, Scott Seidman
wrote:

wrote in news:u0r0o25h0d94dedjp6qvpubkb4c82jj7m3@
4ax.com:

On 13 Dec 2006 20:46:43 GMT, Scott Seidman
wrote:

Inquisitors teach this kind of intelligent design crap and call it
science. The enlightened do not.

That's pretty bold, calling something "crap" when you don't know
anything whatsoever about it.

Decades of my scientific training, including federal grant review
responsiblities, all teach me that an untestable hypothesis expounded as
"truth"is shoddy science (aka, crap). Therefore, when we teach something
like this, we don't make believe that it is good science.

IOW, that's your "untestable hypothesis expounded as truth"...

In fact, we try to make it clear that its not science at all.

I don't think it is "science" and I don't suggest it be called
"science." But I don't think that trying to hide the idea that it is
the way life came about is conducive to education, and I certainly don't
think that all information provided in a general "science" class must be
universally agreed as "science."

Theologans and religious instructors are perfectly free to discuss such
matters all they want, with whoever I want. If its taught as science in a
school system supported by my tax dollars, I'll be at the top of the class
action suit.

Now there's an open-minded attitude AND a great use of the court system!

You know what I think would be a lot of fun? I think it would be a lot
of fun to sit in a dark corner of an absinthe bar sometime and listen
to you and Bubba Jim and Earl Bob practice these junior high schoolyard
debate tactics on one another.

Wolfgang
yeah, that would be a WHOLE lot of fun!