Intelligent Design is making progress every day…

who fully subscribe to these beliefs.
:(

serious. The inmates have taken over the asylum.

four corners. . .

Suicide bombers, riots, all of it...

good one, except leeches are still used in medicine, tho' not in the way depicted. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis#Today

that the Disk World is supported on the backs of 4 elephants standing on a turtle, 10,000 mile long: the Great Atuin.

FDA approves leeches as medical devices
French firm to market bloodsucking creatures in U.S.

The government has lent its seal of approval to marketing an age-old medical device — leeches.

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that Ricarimpex SAS, a French firm, is the first company to request and receive FDA clearance to market the bloodsucking aquatic animals as medical devices.

Leeches are already widely used in American hospitals, and companies that raised and sold them here before 1976 were allowed to continue doing so. However, the medical device law passed that year required newcomers to the field to seek approval.

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Indeed the use of leeches to draw blood goes back thousands of years. They were widely used as an alternative treatment to bloodletting and amputation for several thousand years. Leeches reached their height of medicinal use in the mid-1800s.

FDA noted that today they are used in medicine throughout the world as tools in skin grafts and reattachment surgery.

Medicinal leeches — Hirudo medicinalis — normally make their home in fresh water.

In considering the Ricarimpex application, the FDA said it analyzed the use of leeches in medicine, evaluated safety data provided by the firm and studied how the leeches are fed, their environment and the personnel who handle them.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5319129/ns/health-health_care/

that was mr pete's answer right off the bat
i like you already,
peace, kpete

;)

on the one hand it does at least introduce the idea that things change, it merely substitutes a different reason for why that happens. So the basic premise is left intact.

On the other hand as it is somewhat more moderate it may be harder to fight against and so can be consider more insidious than creationism which is easily enough disproven.

So long as it's the answer to the questions science hasn't answered. Reason trumps faith.

When it's the other way around, and faith trumps reason, you can justify anything.

Young-earth creationism is faith trumping reason.

If you grant the first premise of intelligent design, that you can infer things about the creator from creation, the evidence really requires you to believe in malevolent, stupid design, not intelligent design.

I don't understand why they have a problem with this, because their god seems to be malevolent and stupid in other regards, but they do.