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Climbing For Christ Australia 9-May-2010 At 10:50:42 AM Hendo

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On 9/05/2010 rodw wrote:
>The far religious right have be known to confuse religious belief with
>science...how can you otherwise account for someone pushing Intelligent
>design as a proper scientific fact with a straight face?

I doubt very much this sort of thing is new, particularly the concept of intelligent design by a mathematical intelligence. Since (particularly through some periods,) much of science has been performed in, and sponsored by religious institutions and conducted by religious people, you could argue that many ideas in science are religious ideas.

Interestingly, nobody seems to be able to come up with THE scientific method. I.e. no clear way of distinguishing between all things considered scientific and all things considered non-scientific. Useful to keep in mind.