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Rob and I have quite a thread going on regarding evolution and its scientific verifiability, so I've decided to move it here.

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Comments

[Rob]

No sure where to fit this in but I'll try here... The other night I (unfortunatly) watched the evening news (ABC I think). It was the usual body count/anti-war/anti-homeschoolers spin that I know and hate.. :-)
Anyway, they run a story on how bearing children increases a womans intelect. They go on (and on) about how evolution did this for such and such reason. All thru the story all the scientist and commentators refered to evolution in the third person. They would say "Evolution did this for this reason" or "and then evolution decided to do this.."

Evolution decided? That sounds an awful lot like they are defining evolution not as a process but a person. The "proper" spin should have been "elements of the environment were such that women adapted to this hightened intelect for survival" or some such drivel.. ;-)
To cast the process of evolution as an entity is, pardon my french, Intellegent Design isn't it? That's precisely what these reasonable gents are trying to fight against.

For the record to those who don't camp at this site, I am all for ID but I'm not certain what process God chose to use. Same as Chucky Darwin. He was a big ID guy. Anyway, now I'm rambling.. Two cups of coffee and a big glass of Dr Pepper for breakfast will do that...