Evolution wrangling Stateside
The Kansas school board held hearings on whether they should teach evolution in schools etc. But they found that scientists were unwilling to take part in the debates. Why?
In general, they offered two reasons for the decision: that the outcome of the hearings was a foregone conclusion, and that participating in them would only strengthen the idea in some minds that there was a serious debate in science about the power of the theory of evolution.
It’s a good read. Click. And then of course, theres the intelligent design theory that the world was created by a giant spaghetti monster.
Read the brilliant open letter to the Kansas School Board.
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Is American opinion and culture crowding out all others?
“Intelligent Design” - The single biggest threat to humanity. I cant read anything about this whole thing without a terrible rage growing inside me.
I think the most compelling argument against Intelligent Design (It makes me feel dirty to capitalise it) is called the problem of “infinite regression”. It goes something along the lines of: “Ok, if something designed everything, what designed it?. Ok then, what designed it? Ok then, what designed it? Ok then, what designed it? Ok then, what designed it?
If creationists are determined to accept that the complexity we see around us in the biological world must have been designed, then surely it follows that something must have designed what ever designed it. This leads to an infinite lineage of desingers though, which common sense tells us is simply impossible. So, creationists simultaneously make their argument and refute it in one go. The entire notion of Intelligent Design is utterly flawed. It has an inherent logical paradox.
I challenge any creationist / proponent of intelligent design to make a sensible argument supporting their ideas. I certainly havn’t heard one yet.
Read about the infinite regress here under the heading “What designed the designer?”…
Comment by tim — June 23, 2005 @ 2:06 pm
Its odd, you HAVE to wonder why this arguement is only being put forward in the U.S.A. And also how the ID movement seems to have so much power and money to promote their skewed vision. They are managing to Bastardise Science and Religious faith at the same time
Comment by gordy — June 23, 2005 @ 3:43 pm
Another indispensable link:
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense at Scientific American.
Comment by tim — June 24, 2005 @ 9:05 am
When i was 13 or 14 in a religion class in school we were discussing the creation of earth and Man and so forth. I asked my teacher where dinosaurs featured in the bible. His reply was to smack me in the face. I am now an atheist.
Thanks Christian Brothers!!!!
Comment by Norm — June 24, 2005 @ 2:53 pm
Got any spaghetti oscillating cartoons to illustrate the Big Bang theory?
Comment by computer-glazed Pete — June 26, 2005 @ 7:25 am
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