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If intelligent design was true there would already be a scientific revolution. The science just isn't their. If you want "truth" focus on the philosophical ideas.Get right wing fundamentalists that want to evangelize religion rather than finding actual scientific truth to fund you if you want to research id. If you want to research the early universe study astronomy or astrophysics.

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Careful now, such a pronouncement is unscientific. After all, how long did it take for Copernicus's view of things to go from ridiculous to revolutionary?

As long as it took to demonstrate supporting evidence - more precisely, to verify a prediction made by the Copernican model. Have at it.

(ObFrTed: Down with this sort of thing.)

I wouldn't just be focussed on ID, I have wide ranging interests. That's why I was wondering if anyone would just generically fund me to do whatever.

Regardless of my interests, isn't this something you'd want? Why go through all the effort of a start up if there's a quicker way to get independence?

Your troll about ID killed your thread before it got started. I would encourage you to wait a week and try again without referencing something that offends the vast majority of this board.

--- If there is one thing I think should be censored here it is the intelligent design debate. The entire movement is one big troll that feeds off of its own debate. Let's start marking it dead on arrival.

Ok, noted. I agree the ID debate, and like flame wars, should be censored. I value this community and don't want to bring it down. I wasn't quite sure everyone would automatically censor me for the idea, so I was testing the water.

I think mentioning controversial subjects should be alright, like if someone wanted to know what I would pursue if given the means, but debates about them should be done offline.

Your parents might.

If it's my money, why isn't what you're proposing to spend it on relevant?

It's not about you.

Kinda, though I know if I had alot of money, it would be kind of cool to fund people who are passionate about something to just go do their thing and see what happens. I figure creative work prospers best when a person isn't tied down to some specific problem space. This is where most of our great scientific revolutions seem to have come from. This was true for the Greeks too, who built so many of our intellectual foundations.

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