Ok, I said I was finished with this, but one more post.
quote:
My mind is not made up. Although I believe you are trying to pass off creationism as science in the guise of “intelligent design,” you can convince me if you become the first to have a paper supporting creationism in a peer-reviewed journal. In addition, you might be able to convince high school students that a wizard is behind it all. Can you imagine the repercussions of such an event? You’d be in the history books as the man who single-handedly changed the face of biology forever. I can see it - Russ Paielli, an aerospace engineer by training, demonstrated the importance of education when he wrote a paper that convincingly showed the role of an intelligent designer in guiding life. By strictly adhering to the scientific method and eschewing any reference to the supernatural in his paper, Paielli opened up new fields in biology.
my reply:
I suggest you apply the same standard to the theory of evolution. I suggest you pound your fist on the table and *demand* that evolutionists publish a peer-reviewed paper explaining how the ear evolved by purely naturalistic mechanisms.
And if you think such a paper has been published already, I suggest you track it down, because I’ll bet dollars to dimes it hasn’t. What biology and biochemistry papers usually do is to simply *assume* evolution as the default and don’t even *try* to corroborate it in any specific terms.
OK, I’m done wasting my time with you. Let me know when you find that paper.
You say that it’s not impossible for our ear to have developed through mutation and natural selection. You say that there’s no evidence. You challenge me to find a paper that addresses this issue. I admit that I can neither think of a paper that answers your question nor come up with an experiment on my own. The discussion is ripe for a coup de grace - your contribution to science through the publication of the first peer-reviewed paper that supports creationism without resorting to supernatural explanations. You’ve already won your challenge. If you publish that paper, you can win the war.
Based on how entrenched your beliefs are that creationism has a rightful role in the public science classroom, a thousand scientists could laugh at you in an auditorium and you’d still be the same old preternaturally intelligent Russ Paielli.
But who cares about these thousand un-“enlightened” scientists? Your successful publication will result in an automatic senior fellowship at the Discovery Institute. It’s win-win for you as you get in the history books and a comfortable salary. Heck, you might even get a Nobel Prize.
Do it. Challenge science. Enlighten the unenlightened.