But There Is Only One Surefire Method

Scientific Prayer Makes God A Celestial Lab Rat, Leading To Bad Science And Worse Religion.

What Can Be More Soul Shaking Than Peering Through A 100-inch Telescope At A Distant Galaxy, Holding A 100-million-year-old Fossil Or A 500,000-year-old Stone Tool In One's Hand, Standing Before The Immense Chasm Of Space And Time That Is The Grand Canyon, Or Listening To A Scientist Who Gazed Upon The Face Of The Universe's Creation And Did Not Blink?

But There Is Only One Surefire Method Of Proper Pattern Recognition, And That Is Science.

As Karl Marx Once Noted: 'hegel Remarks Somewhere That All Great, World-historical Facts And Personages Occur, As It Were, Twice. He Forgot To Add: The First Time As Tragedy, The Second As Farce.' William Jennings Bryan And The Scopes Trial Was A Tragedy. The Creationists And Intelligent Design Theorists Are A Farce.

So, Of Course, Gish's Presentation Was Well Received, Which It Would Have Been The Case Had He Only Gotten Up And Said "praise The Lord" And Sat Back Down.