Submitted by Glenn Shrom, Dec 9, 2006 23:31

I just attended a Dr. Shermer debate at Penn State Berks this past week, and would like to be able to e-mail him. It is very odd that he writes about debating the existence of a deity or intelligent designer, which is what he tried to do from his end, yet all the while Dr. Paul Nelson at the other podium never brought up either concept. Dr. Nelson spoke of intelligent causes, not intelligent persons, and was very clear that he chose not to think of the intelligent causes as being supernatural. Dr. Nelson, on the other hand, talked about a God of the gaps, the super-natural, the age of the earth, and evidence for evolution. Really, these two gentleman had no argument with each other. Dr. Shermer admitted the possibility of intelligent causes, provided we think of them as having a natural origin. Dr. Nelson said nothing to the contrary. Dr. Nelson had nothing to say against evolution, nothing to say about the age of the earth, and nothing to say in favor of God or the supernatural during his 30-minute presentation of intelligent design. Dr. Shermer's only answer to Dr. Nelson's evidence of intelligent causes was to admit that it was very possible that they could in fact exist.

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