Posted on 09/08/2005 1:33:48 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
Five critiques of Intelligent Design
John Brockman's Edge.org site has published the following five critiques of Intelligent Design (the bracketed comments following each link are mine):
Marcelo Gleiser, "Who Designed the Designer?" [a brief op-ed piece]
Jerry Coyne, "The Case Against Intelligent Design: The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name" [a detailed critique of ID and its history, together with a summary defense of Darwinism]
Richard Dawkins & Jerry Coyne, "One Side Can Be Wrong" [why 'teaching both sides' is not reasonable when there's really only one side]
Scott Atran, "Unintelligent Design" [intentional causes were banished from science with good reason]
Daniel C. Dennett, "Show Me the Science" [ID is a hoax]
As Marcelo Gleiser suggests in his op-ed piece, the minds of ID extremists will be changed neither by evidence nor by argument, but IDists (as he calls them) aren't the target audience for critiques such as his. Rather, the target audience is the millions of ordinary citizens who may not know enough about empirical science (and evolution science in particular) to understand that IDists are peddling, not science, but rather something tarted up to look like it.
Let us not be deceived.
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Excellent articles. It's a shame the pinheads don't/won't read them.
It's the burden we labor under.
through what concatenation of cataclysmic catarrh do you condense such a concretion of contumely?
" Besides you already know how I would answer."
Hey, whatever you say man, you win. :)
I see. I await further instructions on behalf of the Conspiracy. The Voices are quiet tonight!
Yawn, all this is saying is that science-as-we-know-it can't grok the concept.
Hello, drlevy88. The last time we chatted you warned me I was heading into an abyss. Thanks again for the warning.
What does this 'grok' term mean? I know I've seen it before. I don't think it was in an officially sanction text.
"Know" or "understand." R.A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land.
ah. I have confidence in your canny competence to craftily concoct a condign curative conducive to correcting your current condition.
that's it, I can't do it anymore!
that's it, I can't do it anymore!
Como?
with what assessment do you disagree?
that matter and energy display stable and reliable natural characteristics?
that the interaction of matter and energy **can be**, **at least under some common conditions**, statistically predictable?
that the relations of large aggregations of matter and energy **can produce** patterned cyclic behavior?
what?
Actually none now, since it's worded a bit different than this;
why is it so very difficult for many to recognize that natural processes and material properties are NOT random and by their natures impose patterning and order
seriously: what, besides naked incredulity, do you bring to the table?
What's wrong with naked incredulity? Would you deny it has been in the mix of many great leaps forward even that of the evolution of the TOE itself?
Go for it.
Ahh! Perry! And Dinah! TV was TV then. How I loved them!
continue conceiving convoluted correspondence, conclude at your own contentment :)
"Know" or "understand." R.A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land.
You ruined my setup.
Anyway, a grok is best used for stir-fry, the cooking that doesn't cook.
allow me to make it more fun for you:
1. the interaction of matter and energy under many, perhaps most, conditions IS statistically predictable
2. The relations of large aggregations of matter and energy DOES PRODUCE patterned cyclic behavior.
i thought "grok" was booze favored by British sailors?
Wrong! You're thinking of a crock!
Sorry! Thought it was a trivia quiz.
That's okay. I didn't expect a response anyway. I've been assigned to the 'those who have been warned' already category.
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