Thursday, March 31, 2005
I love this quote and only wish I came accross this first. A Pennsylvania pastor said this about those who attack the teaching of Intelligent Design.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture"
Pogge says it all. "Um, pastor? Think about that."
Let me make something clear. The problem with ID is not some of the negative arguments made by its proponents. For example, although Behe's attempt to prove a negative by labling something as a "complex structure" is, well, silly, his focusing in on difficult cases and knocking down weak adaptive explanations helps clear the way for stronger ones. The problem is their positive argument, often not even stated, sucks. Just how does a non-spatially extended God interact with the world to create these structures? What the ID people want is to have an unworkable and outdated Cartesian substance dualism declared a scientific. It is not.
The quote came from here. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=1&u=/afp/20050327/lf_afp/uspoliticsreligion
Pogge blog's is well worth looking at by the way. One of the better Canadian blogs out there.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture"
Pogge says it all. "Um, pastor? Think about that."
Let me make something clear. The problem with ID is not some of the negative arguments made by its proponents. For example, although Behe's attempt to prove a negative by labling something as a "complex structure" is, well, silly, his focusing in on difficult cases and knocking down weak adaptive explanations helps clear the way for stronger ones. The problem is their positive argument, often not even stated, sucks. Just how does a non-spatially extended God interact with the world to create these structures? What the ID people want is to have an unworkable and outdated Cartesian substance dualism declared a scientific. It is not.
The quote came from here. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=1&u=/afp/20050327/lf_afp/uspoliticsreligion
Pogge blog's is well worth looking at by the way. One of the better Canadian blogs out there.
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