Posted on 12/22/2001 7:04:34 PM PST by Exnihilo
Professor of Law? Geez, you creationists are really scraping the bottom of the barrel!!!!!!!
Interesting.
He indicated no knowledge of science -- but he is a good spinner for the religious cause -- just what we expect of a slippery lawyer.
Darwin's only earned degree was in Theology
You mean apart from the lack of ANY scientific evidence presented? This is a philosophical diatribe. He's on about personalities and celebrities. These are all transparent ad hominem assaults -- something lawyers leap to -- but something rational beings find irrelevant.
Evolution is a process that occurs in nature -- the evidence for it is massive. This lawyer is asking us to disregard our lying eyes and believe his philosophical rants instead.
To ID'ers and other Creationists, present your SCIENTIFIC evidence or go away.
Actually I believe that his legal training makes him MORE qualified to evaluate the quality of the evidence offered in arguments supporting Evolution Theory. He is also adept by training to point out inconsistencies and contradictions that Evolutionary Scientists are prone to ignore.
Perhaps we can't expect a more penetrating rebuttal from a...never mind. Anyway, why not a professor of Law, when leading "scientists" say things like this?
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.Contrary to what many materialists have claimed, this is not the attitude of an impartial seeker after truth, who allows the evidence to take him wherever it will. This is the creed of a religious man. Perhaps a Professor of Law is more easily able to recognize this fact than the evolutionary biologists, most of whom are blinded by their own a priori assumption of materialism.
This is why you creationists have to rely on slippery lawyers rather than scientists in the actual field who know these sorts of statements are beyond ridiculous. There is ample evidence of transistional forms. But this never satisfies the fundamentalists because they want to see the guy inbetween the two individuals. And if you find that guy, they want to see the two guys inbetween those two, and then the four guys between them, and so on.
You creationists really aren't a serious challenge to evolution. We've seen way too much evidence of all forms of evolution, micro and macro, to have to rely on your old time religion for answers. Sorry.
ha ha ha ha. You realize, of course, that in any case at law at least 50% of the lawyers are found to be WRONG in their arguments or theories, and often both are found to be wrong!!!
ha ha ha ha -- lawyers as scientists -- what a joke.
See, you get off on these philosophical benders because you can't handle the massive amount of evidence. "Geez, the evidence points to evolution, maybe we can attack the philosophy and make the evidence go away."
Sorry, but evidence of evolution is just massive, massive, massive. The only arguments are about where certain splits occurred, when they occurred, etc. No one in the field seriously questions the general flow of evolutionary forces.
Funny, isn't it, that the only people sqeaking about the "flaws" of evolutionary science always have a religious agenda in their back pocket. What are the chances, ha ha ha
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