A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 15-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Ever wonder why they call it "science" fiction? There's often a lot of
science woven into the fiction.

As a person trained in science, I'd say there's a lot more fiction than
science in science fiction.

BTW - creationism isn't an alternative theory; it's bull****.
"Intelligent design" is just a refusal to accept reality.

Many scholars and other people on the upside of the bell curve from you
disagree.

There aren't many people on the upside from me

Wanna bet?

and few of them will
sink into the nonsense of creationism. "Intelligent Design" is just
a refusal to accept the fact that scientific principles don't prove
the existance of God.

Nor do scientific principles DENY the existence of God. There is a large
body of scholars who believe that the physical properties of the universe,
combined with statistical probability, provide substantial evidence of
intelligent design of the Universe.

The latter is good enough for many religions,
including the Roman Catholic Church. Just because a few fringe
fundamentalists believe in that nonsense doesn't make it an acceptable
field of study.

Hm. So, now any field of study that is "fringe" is not acceptable? What ever
happened to academic freedom of inqiry?

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