Susan:
>some highly conservative Christians are vastly more interested in "stamping
>out" science than vice versa, believe me. Science is not threatened by
>religion, but a few people seem to think that science threatens religion.
>The problems involved in trying to inject "design" into science are
>manifold and have been covered in other e-mails. But to recap: (a) there's
>no way to tell if something is designed or not (b) design implys a designer
>and therefore a religious mythology of some kind or another which is
>outside the perview of science.
Chris
Not to mention outside the scope of the scientific method.
Susan:
>It might be helpful to you to try and step outside our culture for a
>moment. People who are pushing "design" (like Johnson, etc.) have a
>particular designer in mind, a specific middle-easter god. They don't think
>that White Buffalo Calf Woman "designed" DNA or the Milky Way.
Chris
But *I* think she did! ;-)