John Hoopes of the University of Kansas claims to be a scientist, but it is clear to me that he’s no scientist! How do I know? Because he has concluded that some intelligent designer is responsible for producing 300 of these:
Surely he knows scientists cannot appeal to intelligent agency as an explanation for natural phenomenon. Besides, there is no need to appeal to any intelligent designer. Natural processes such as wind and water erosion are fully capable of producing the spherical shape of these rocks over billions of years. To appeal to some “rock-designer-of-the-gaps” is to give up on science. Currently, we may not know the exact pathway by which nature produced these spherical rocks, but given the past successes of science, I am sure we will discover it in the near future.
If these rocks are the products of some intelligent designer as Hoopes claims, then let him tell us who designed the designer. Guess what, he doesn’t know! Clearly, then, these rocks can’t be designed.

April 2, 2010 at 12:00 pm
ROTFLOL!!! Perfect…have they fired that guy yet? Just wait until Richard Dawkins and the Kansas school board get wind of this.
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April 2, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Ha!!! I find it amazing that scientists can conclude intelligence was necessary to produce something so simple as a round rock, and yet they say intelligence is not necessary to explain the mind-boggling complexity and specificity of the cell. If billions of years of naturalistic forces and blind chance can produce the most complex and efficient nano-machines (self-reproducing at that!) known to man, surely it can produce round rocks!
Jason
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April 5, 2010 at 7:38 am
How dare they? lol Man is a silly thing sometimes.
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