I've been harping on this point in these parts for years. It's good to see a "real" Objectivist writer get the argument into print.
"Hayek showed how in a free market the complex processes of producing and distributing goods and services to millions of individuals do not require socialist planners."
But it doesn't happen without someone doing something. Same with creation.
"Creationists and advocates of intelligent design come to their beliefs in part through honest errors and in part from evasions of facts and close-minded dogmatism."
Funny stuff!
Excellent Article.
one could ask what are Evolutionists afraid of in letting the Theory of ID and or Creation, be exhibited?
LOL....creationist fear? I don't think so. I fear God alone.
I think both ping lists would benefit from this one.
Good post Jenny...
If you think this outcome requires no intelligence, why don't growing, wealthy economies spring up from schools of fish, or swarms of bees?
The complex, sophisticated results of a vibrant economy are the result of intelligent, voluntary participation in transactions viewed as beneficial by all involved parties.
Score one for intelligent design.
I don't see how this advances the debate at all. Perhaps someone can explin it to me.
Here's my take on it--any economic system, whether centrally managed, designed and run or not--requires intelligence and conscious desires of the individual to be met. Hence the individuals are acting in conscious selfishness in order to improve one's economic standing.
Evolution (from my understanding) hypothosises that unconscious bits of chemicals can manipulate themselves and their surroundings for selfish reasons. There is no intelligence governing the first stages of evolution, either centrally, or individually.
I think what really motivates most anti-evolutionists is a fear of having to defend the Bible as a less than perfect book. Thye see a slippery slope where if they admit the world was not created in 7 days, then the commandment against adultery is equally suspect.
I was a Baptist back when they still believed in dinosaurs. The anti-evolution crowd shows what happens when the hard-core fundamentalists take over an institution or movement.
Conservatives should take heed and perpetually examine their own beliefs and credos. (Like me!)
parsy, the vain.
So teach them both.
This is perhapst the most idiotic evolution piece of I've ever read. The analogy of the market to evolution is so absurd, I can't believe someone would actually publish it before realizing "gee, that's really lame". If this is the best the evolutionists can do, they are really grasping.
maybe it would be helpful to discuss this in class??
Is this really a think piece? What kind of argument can you make for or against creationism of for or against intelligent quoting two people who designed systems of trade and commerce?
Regardless what is written after these quotes the writer is deluded to think that anyone with common sense is going to bit on this kind of premise
Only Loonie Libs talk drag out hollywood starlets to talk about the danger of Alar
This is like getting someone who makes spaghetti strands to give a lecture and demonstrate gene splicing
Years ago I managed an auto parts store and one day this korean called "On the phone he said "Hello my name kim." and he said nothing else so I hung up He called back a minute later and said Hello my name kims mo-bla I need parts and there was another long pause he as for socks and brakie shooz -- this man called himself a master mechanic his experiance as it turned out driving a round a junkyard buggy and cutting off car and truck parts with a cutting torch. In my estimation old Kim was closer to the real thing than this liberal wannabe thunker
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That's the whole point, science has not even come close to proving the theory of evolution, so they teach it doctrinally as a big, fat LIE. Darwin himself said that evolution could never be proven unless the linking fossils or the transitional forms could be found. So far neither have been found.
There have been, however, some elaborate hoaxes and imaginary 'discoveries' by the Darwinists in their zeal to shoot down Biblical references to creation and lift Darwin up in its place. So Christians don't really 'fear' evolution, (as the lying title insists), they just love the Truth and loathe satanic lies.
He doesn't seem very objective to me. Perhaps a presentation of thoughts in the market place of ideas would be better served with a positive presentation rather than an attempt to demonize others...but hey, that's just me.
The objective basis for ethics in man is the same one that causes me to avoid some very dark alleyways. The writer's argument for replacing heavenly based ethics with those of man falls very short here.
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Fear drives most men. Only thought can overcome fear.
Wrong. The Bible marked the birth of creationism.