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To: BikerNYC

Have you read any of the treatises on ID? Highly scientific (even if you disagree with their premise and conclusion) and do not belong on the "Religious" shelves at the bookstores.


99 posted on 12/20/2005 8:33:24 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

I read Behe's "Darwin's Black Box". Does that count?

Behe is very scientific when discussing flagellum or blood clotting or the eye, but that is in there to "prove" how complex the system is.

The conclusion reached from that discussion is philosophical in nature, in the never very humble opinion of this commentator with a degree in philosophy (yes, martha, we do exist). That one is a scientist does not lead necessarily to the conclusion that the position held by said scientist is, in fact, a scientific position.

Irreducible complexity is a philosophical position. That we infer design from irreducible complexity is another layer of that philosophical position.

JMO.


516 posted on 12/20/2005 10:57:54 AM PST by dmz
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