Briefing Packet For Educators on Intelligent Design - Color Version PDF From Discovery Institute

Briefing Packet For Educators on
Intelligent Design - B/W Printable Version
PDF From Discovery Institute

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein

NMSF - updated: 4/9/08

New Mexico Science Foundation
Dedicated to the pursuit of the scientific method.

New Mexico Science Foundation meets quarterly. Our next meeting will be held 7pm, Tue, Apr 22, at the UNM Law School, Room 2405 1115 Stanford NE (click for map). All are welcome to attend.
Due to release, Apr 18, Expelled takes a fresh look at the ID debate as Ben Stein interviews the prominent scientists and academics on both sides of the issue, including ardent Darwinists Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, and Eugenie Scott, and design proponents such as Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Wells, and Guillermo Gonzalez. Expelled is “a disturbing new documentary that will shock anyone who thinks all scientists are free to follow the evidence wherever it may lead.” Press Release
$1,000,000 Origin-of-Life Prize®
Prime candidate (though not likely participating):
Harvard Univ, Origins of Life Initiative
OOLI "will study everything from planet formation and detection to the origin and early evolution of life." Darwin's Origin of the Species was published in 1859. Yet with all the advancements in science, no one has been able to duplicate even the simplest form of life nonetheless watch it occur "naturally." Does the scientific method somehow magically access future discoveries for proof of neo-Darwinism today?

Definition of "science" - 3a : knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method b: such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena (Merriam-Webster Online)

Definition of "scientific method" - : principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses (Merriam-Webster Online)

Definition of "probable" - 1 : supported by evidence strong enough to establish presumption but not proof 2 : establishing a probability 3 : likely to be or become true or real (Merriam-Webster Online)

Historical Science versus Empirical Science

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