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We Think Of Our Eyes As Video Cameras And Our Brains As Blank Tapes To Be Filled With Sensory Inputs.

Myths Are About The Human Struggle To Deal With The Great Passages Of Time And Life--birth, Death, Marriage, The Transitions From Childhood To Adulthood To Old Age. They Meet A Need In The Psychological Or Spiritual Nature Of Humans That Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With Science. To Try To Turn A Myth Into A Science, Or A Science Into A Myth, Is An Insult To Myths, An Insult To Religion, And An Insult To Science. In Attempting To Do This, Creationists Have Missed The Significance, Meaning, And Sublime Nature Of Myths. They Took A Beautiful Story Of Creation And Re-creation And Ruined It.

It Is Sad That While Science Moves Ahead In Exciting New Areas Of Research, Fine-tuning Our Knowledge Of How Life Originated And Evolved, Creationists Remain Mired In Medieval Debates About Angels On The Head Of A Pin And Animals In The Belly Of An Ark.

Intelligent Design Is A Remarkably Uncreative Theory That Abandons The Search For Understanding At The Very Point Where It Is Most Needed. If Intelligent Design Is Really A Science, Then The Burden Is On Its Scientists To Discover The Mechanisms Used By The Intelligent Designer. (80)

Science Is A Set Of Methods Designed To Describe And Interpret Observed Or Inferred Phenomenon, Past Or Present, And Aimed At Building A Testable Body Of Knowledge Open To Rejection Or Confirmation.