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# Nope.
Intelligent Design is about teaching kids God made everything, using bad science.

If what I've read about God is correct, he'd probably use good science.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:14, archived)
# sorry, I misread what you said
I thought you were saying that Dawkins was proving God doesn't exist.
He just isn't accepting that he does either until science proves it.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:17, archived)
# It's abductive reasoning
not deductive. Evolution explains the facts without invoking the supernatural, it's the most likely theory. Deducing is not possible and will never be, unless time travel is invented or God appears.
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:19, archived)
# Unfortunately
Evolution explains the facts by invoking other things we have no real evidence for. The fossil record is amazingly scarce (and saying that the conditions required to fossilise and the massive time scales make finding fossils difficult, is not an argument in favour) and doesn't really show what we'd expect it to.

Which could point to either evolution being rubbish or something a lot different to what we currently imagine it to be. Either way, there's not much evidence for it as it stands.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:27, archived)
# this is true
and so we have a plausible idea of what might have happened with some scant artefacts and a bit of reasoning, or a somewhat less plausible idea based on a collection of old writings.
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# Yep.
Exactly the same thing.

Both require an act of faith to say that you know what is right and others are wrong.

As for the plausibility - how can you say one is more plausible than the other? You can say that one makes more sense to you than the other, doesn't make it more likely.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:32, archived)
#
www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=god&word2=science
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:33, archived)
# Pffft!
Hardly surprising on a technology based search.

I bet you'd get a different result if you checked the Bible.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Mon 4 Dec 2006, 17:35, archived)