I dunno James too much about I.D. You'd have to look into it and theistic evolution. As somebody who does evolutionary genetics I'm inclined to be a tadbit biased against it as I find them to be creationism-lite (fewer calories, same flavor you've come to expect! Tastes more filling! XD j/k).

In regards to refuting irreducible complexity you can look at artificial selection (whereby humans breed plants and animals to exaggerate particular traits) and machine intelligence + cellular automata (whereby people use mathematical formulas and computer models to come up with things that behave startlingly like living organisms in some key ways). The reason I think you'd probably have an easier time with intelligent design or theistic evolution is from what I understand it's somewhat of a middle ground between creationism and evolutionary thinking. I didn't say I liked any of those because they don't help out in evolutionary studies I'm doing but you know what I mean.

I saw a movie, Cockneys Vs. Zombies in one of those streaming torrent things. Maybe we can watch it later?

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There were a number of popes in the early church named Honorius. One I think was a witch hunter or exorcist and another got in trouble and was anathematized but I can't keep track of them all. Catholics probably have like an encyclopedia about that stuff I'd bet.

Just found it a little interesting.

It is not my goal to attempt to regulate the morality of others. I am satisfied to concern myself with my own for it is impractical to attempt the control of other people when one is not a master of their own self first. For starters. Also I just tend to find the idea of controlling other people to be somewhat immoral in the first place. Or perhaps it is the wanting to control other people that I find repugnant.
I guess it's like... I live in a bit of a grayer world than the one presented in simple blacks and whites that you'll find other more typical Christians go on about. Sure, there's still right and wrong, good and bad but its on somewhat of a continuum or a spectrum. That doesn't mean that everything is okay or equally valid however. The wrong things are still wrong and even when they are done "for the right reasons" there are still quite often consequences for those actions. Sometimes even when the right things are right there are still negative consequences. I live with a narcissist, remember?

Anyway, enough on that.
I think this summer I would like to set up something to do or go see with you and my girlfriend. She hasn't met you yet. She can be a little bratty/bossy sometimes and is a touch silly but is very good and is hardworking in character... she has three jobs and does most of her family's cooking and cleaning. When I come over to her house I often help her with some of it so that she doesn't have to do it all by herself. The other day I was peeling shrimp, pitting cherries...

Yes, yes.... I'm probably going to hell because I cuddle with her on the couch while we wait for the pasta to reach a boil... like how I already am because some think of biology as heretical since it's incompatible with literalist interpretations of Genesis. And countless other things. I'm not losing any sleep over it though. Things such as looting, raping, and coercion are much worse than the practice of medicine or mathematics, you know.
& it's not like I'm making sacrifices to false gods or conjuring demons.

Hehe, I guess my nickname for you for awhile is going to be paladin.
I dunno, [link] you make me think of western movies for some reason and moralism... well, medieval paladins were a type of crusader I believe...
it's not meant to be derogatory, like how some people used to call me wizard, even though it's science rather than magic that I do.

I don't delusionally consider myself to be any sort of a God, I am but a man. As you are also a man. So I don't find my studies of nature to be against God per se and on the contrary, if you explore the majesty and splendor of things in the universe, that can lead to a better appreciation of the things that are strange and mysterious... if you go about it the right way. Anyway, got your photo on my desk and your $5 at the ready, just wish I was in better shape for this chemistry final coming up.
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