Posted on 10/31/2005 9:27:13 PM PST by conservative_crusader
"Science searches for the best explanations of natural phenomena. Or so we are told. But what happens if a scientist publishes a peer-reviewed paper in a journal suggesting that the best explanation for the sudden appearance of a huge variety of life forms at the very beginning of animal life is intelligent design?
In early 2005 Richard Sternberg, editor of a science journal and holder of two PhDs in biology, was forced to flee for justice to the U.S. government's Office of Special Counsel (OSC) because he had permitted a scientist to publish in his journal a paper that suggested that intelligent design might be the best explanation for the origin of the basic forms of animal life." *Snip*
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It's kinda late so I may not be able to post back until tomorrow morning at the very earliest.
Applied materialist philosophy allies science with the idea of a Godless universe or possibly a universe in which God exists but is not evident. In that case, the controversy between intelligent design and naturalism is not a conflict between faith and reason, but between differing faiths.
Sternberg, who now hopes that OSC can help him salvage his once-promising science career, demonstrates an alarming truth: Naturalism is a jealous god, all the more jealous when it is in danger of being toppled.
Journalist Denyse O'Leary is the author of By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the growing intelligent design controversy.
Ping. What do you think of this?
Ping. What do you think of this?
In post number 1 of that thread are links to two earlier threads on the same topic. This is very old news.
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