'Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics': Supernatural Selection

The New York Times ^ | 14 April 2002 | JIM HOLT

[Gumlegs]

Don't bother me. I'm yelling back at the screen!

LOL!

[PatrickHenry]

Cloaked & lurking ...

[VadeRetro]

Mein Deutsch is nicht gut genüg! I'd like to read the English sometime.

[Nebullis]

There's a slight problem with the senescence model and that is that past reproductive years, mortality drops off as age increases.

[Gladwin]

Dank für das komplette und lesbare website. Offensichtlich sollte jeder auf FreeRepublic es lesen.

Machen sie oberkorper frei! (I used that on german women when I was there.)

[xzins]

Occum's Razor doesn't hold a candle to the Kobiachi Maru. (Just kidding....humor.)

[Doctor Stochastic]

That'a Occam's Razor from Willam of Occam (or Ockham). He liked it so much, he bought the company.

Actually it shaves slowly but it shaves exceedling close.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Most people seem not to have risen to the level of Aristotelean physics.

[BMCDA]

It's quite comprehensive indeed but unfortunately it's completely in German and I don't know if the author has any plans to translate it to English.
I found this site some time ago while doing a search on evolution, Popper and Chalmers. I was quite surprised that there was a German website dealing with Creationism since I was convinced that this was only an issue in America (and to some lesser degree in Australia). Most Europeans don't even know that there is such a controversy over this topic in the US, so I was even more baffled when I found a French (or was it Belgian?) website dealing with Creationism (but somehow I lost the bookmark, merde!).

[jennyp]

Mein Deutsch is nicht gut genüg!

Ja aber babelfishdeutscher ist viel besser :-)

[jennyp]

There's a slight problem with the senescence model and that is that past reproductive years, mortality drops off as age increases.

Really? It holds across many species? How exactly do you define "mortality" in this case?

[Nebullis]

It looks like a great site. A cursory glance revealed some good topics, canalization, developmental constraints...

Bedankt, hoor!

[Nebullis]

How exactly do you define "mortality" in this case?

That's a good question. Mortality rates level off at older ages. The speed slows down. Mutations accumulate over a lifetime, but, apparently the expectation of mortality based on rates of deleterious effects, both from mutations and from active genes causing rapid senescence, slow down at some point far beyond reproductive age.

[BMCDA]

Niets te danken ;-D

[RobbyS]

Most people seem not to have risen to the level of Aristotelean physics. Including many "scientists"?

[RobbyS]

merde!). Watch your language: this is a family thread! :-)

[Quila]

If you care to check out this particular book, which also delves into the scientific, spiritual and historical dynamics of UFOs, Ghosts, Drugs (coincidently), critiques of Christian sects and their ties to the "occult", and other goodies, the book is called 'Occult Invasion'.

You actually have me interested and I may get it. The drugs/religion connection is well known though. That's how a lot of people "saw god."

For example, I read recently that researchers found that the Oracle of Delphi, which in a religious context gave out supernatural advice, worked on gas. There was a fault line running right under the temple that was releasing Ethylene gas, which caused the trances and delirium in the priestesses.

I suppose there's a rather mundane explanation such as this for most religious phenomena.

[Quila]

I've been waiting for Fiat jokes.

"Fix It Again Tony"

[Quila]

Intelligent design is not creationism. Such is only a tie that's made by those who have an anti-intelligent design agenda.

You keep telling yourself that, but many of us have been watching the progression. It seems largely influenced by the fact that they can't force obvious religious doctrine into public schools (creationism), so the new tact is to wrap a scientific cloak around it to get it in.

In either case, the main point is to displace science (evolution) in the science classes with religion (creationism) by other than competition on an equal scientific level.

[Quila]

Interesting take on Hunt by Aufill, who certainly has his dander up about Hunt's inferences that Catholics surrender "devotions, novenas, feasts", and I suppose the incense, candles, and Marial and saint worship as well and does in fact tie in all the evidence.

I'm even more interested. I've always known that much of Christianity, and especially Catholicism, is taken from local pagan practices (in the Catholic's case, it was just plain good marketing). Hunt lays it out pretty well?