I'm not much of a CNN-watcher, but they have had some excellent coverage of the hurricanes. I've even surfed by Lou Dobbs a couple of times. I think he should get comedy billing with all the smirks, pregnant pauses and fatuous comments. His billing for comedy should be cemented by tonight's "discussion" on ID and evolution. Dobb's asked both contestants "how was life started." Of course, neither could answer, although the ID guy did the best job (a creator). Dobb's should have asked them to prove it. He just couldn't carry the joke to its logical conclusion: both creationism and evolutionism are articles of faith.
Creationism (intelligent design or just like the Bible says) relies on faith. ID, at least, says there was a guiding hand that got it going in our direction. "Prove it" for the creationist might require getting the word once again and bringing back the "how." However, the Pearly Gates usually swing one way, to definite proof is hard to come by.
Evolutionism is based on spotty evidence and a lot of guesses. The evolutionists cannot replicate creation of life, do not have a complete enough record to confirm their theory to law and can't in any conceivable time frame (got 200,000,000 years per experiment?), so it will probably remain a theory that can't reasonably be tested and replicated. (do I hear "faith" here?)
If you think it's sound, irrefutable science, then take some methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, water and other trace molecules and go do it.
I tend to believe that we got here by a process of evolution. The data seem to point that way. Did it get a push? No one knows (for sure) and no one can prove or disprove it. So, what's the argument about? One faith wanting supremacy over another? Dobbs surely missed the punch line on this one.
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