Show Me the Science [Critique of Intelligent Design, by Daniel Dennett

New York Times ^ | August 28, 2005 | Daniel C. Dennett

[AZLiberty]

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Is "intelligent design" a legitimate school of scientific thought? Is there something to it, or have these people been taken in by one of the most ingenious hoaxes in the history of science? Wouldn't such a hoax be impossible? No. Here's how it has been done.

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[dynoman]

Sorry.

But Dawkins wrote a book on it.

Do you understand what Dawkins meant by The Blind Watchmaker?

It was a rebuttal to Paley's argument, not a corroboration of it.

Yeah I know that. So what?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Occam's razor requires the simplest explanation consistent with the evidence.

[dynoman]

Forget about the board of directors, what about the list of judges? they will be doing the critical review of the entries, not the board of directors.

[js1138]

Who are the judges?

[dynoman]

Are you deliberately being silly? That's not what I said

That right you merely implied it, but now you go right on to actually say it;

I also explained why I think they're a creationist front group.

Thanks for clearing it up.

[js1138]

Nevermind. I found the list.

[dynoman]

Judges

[VadeRetro]

You keep bragging about this I'll pay the pilot to throw you out next flight.

So I have to listen to everyone else brag about how high they go at the big HQ and I'm supposed to pretend to be impressed? I got the patch. I got the memories. Nobody can take that away. Nobody.

[VadeRetro]

As previously mentioned, we were in "Wagner" mode. Scares the crap out of the cretins.

[Gumlegs]

FFFFT!

Okay, you were never up in a black helicopter, or any helicopter of any kind. You were in an amusement park and had a nice ride in a little pink teacup, but unfortunately you ate too much cotton candy and soda pop and spent the rest of the afternoon throwing up behind the fun house. You'll never do that again.

[VadeRetro]

I was in a confusement park and had a nice ride in a little tink peacup.

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[Gumlegs]

... Yeah, but then, you know, you like met this chick who really felt sorry for you and like kept in touch and all. She like lost those really weird friends of hers, and she even bought you a nice bottle of that Australian ...thing ... stuff ... you like, and you, like really ended up having a nice time, okay? So, be cool.

[VadeRetro]

That's her? This is love!

[Junior]

Occam's razor requires the simplest explanation consistent with the evidence.

Okay. I'm exhausted. Katrina blew through here and knocked out my power at 0230. I've Been up since. Isn't that what I said earlier or am I missing something?

[VadeRetro]

Squinting more closely at that picture, she has the cooties from hell.

[Gumlegs]

Those would be the weird friends she lost ... all for you. Must be love.

[VadeRetro]

If you're sure she's over the infestation, maybe. But even now on another thread I'm going ga-ga over Diana Rigg.

[Gumlegs]

Perfectly understandable. Which thread?

[VadeRetro]

Thread about some recent nobody named Eva Longoria being the sexiest TV woman of all time. Huh?

[protest1]

And who perpetrated the hoax? Creationists? I think not.