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I am a long-term NOVA lover. This production was perhaps the best I have ever seen. I was following the Dover travesty as it unfolded. I exhaled when I heard the report of the judge's verdict. A close call. This was the first detailed explanation of evidence presented by both sides that I've seen. The court room reenactments were gems of clarity. The comments made at the end by the thwarted ex-policeman - nasty personal attacks on the judge - seem to me such perfect exemplars of the "arguments" put forward by the creationists - let's not waste time on the intelligent design euphemistic smoke screen. They have their faith. More power to them. Although it will not happen, I still wish sometimes that they would admit the possibility that others view their faith as a choice, and that those others may have thought through the idea of making that same choice, and in the end decided that a religion that requires dispensing with reason might, just might, not be a good choice.
The argument from design is probably the most convincing for a Creator. But it's still all circumstantial. It has no real explaining power.
It's just that evolution does provide a rich explaining framework that does not need the presence of a supernatural being. The statements made by some, such as evolution implying that a complete 747 should emerge from a junk pile, is completely offbase about evolution actually claims. Certainly not that.
But again, faith is a choice. And that is the key point. That choice precludes even the consideration of alternatives. The mind is closed, in one sense. I think that I get and can admire that those of faith, and I have some among my dearest family, feel rather that their faith opens their hearts to a all-encompassing love. It's just that it comes at a price that I regard as too high to pay.