Not exact matches
Further, if one removes the emotional aspect
from whichever belief is held, it must be conceded that Ham did offer an objective and indisputable fact concerning how the public school system has intentionally excluded the
intelligent design
argument.
The truth project was blatantly
intelligent design and loaded with quote mines,
arguments from ignorance, god of the gaps, strawmen, etc...
You are trying to create a straw man
argument right now and distort an
intelligent discussion
from taking place.
The
argument will be the old one
from the watch to an
intelligent maker.
Accept for the sake of
argument the logic of
intelligent design, based upon the premise that things which are complicated must result
from design.
Assume for the sake of
argument that the designer must be
intelligent (ignoring of course many designs / results which
from our own experience are flawed or counterproductive) 3.
The
argument of a «First Mover» falls aparts when you consider that explaning the ignition of the universe by an
intelligent creator requires the creator to already exist (where did he come
from?)
This absence of articulate,
intelligent conservative
arguments from the daily lives of millions of Americans is a civic disaster.
But for me the greatest difference between Thomas Aquinas» Cosmological
Argument and any and all
arguments from design comes
from what all the advocates of design admit: that the candidate for the
Intelligent Designer could be, at least theoretically, just about any supra «human
intelligent manipulator of complex artifacts,
from outer «space aliens to Al Gore's Mama Gaia.
Aside
from the fact that those stats have nothing to do with religion's truth, all those stats (higher drug use, lower happiness, higher stress) are all found additionally in
intelligent people (something highly correlated with atheism)-- so your
argument of causation is really a farce.
That
intelligent people get converted
from time to time is certainly not a proof that what they now believe is true, and I don't get the sense that he's using the intelligence of these people as rhetorical weight to support an
argument about the truth of what he believes to be true.
That's an
argument for someone far more
intelligent than I, as it's a debate that could be argued
from many, many different viewpoints.
One assumes that a cover story
from the Atlantic will be an
intelligent, well - reasoned
argument; not this month.
I've seen several commentators make very
intelligent arguments to that effect (and they've got some support in the case law, even though I come down on the other side)... but I've never seen it
from Steyn himself.
From the
intelligent and practical to the ridiculous and paranoid, there are several
arguments for and against a company or individual to purchase carbon offsets.
There really should be a stronger term for the mind - numbing use of rhetorical tricks and semantic nuances that passes for informed
argument here and on other threads... some
from obviously
intelligent, but deeply in - denial (and determined) defenders of the faith.