Posted on 04/30/2005 6:27:04 AM PDT by truthfinder9
This article will make the people whom blindly think evolution is science a bit angry. National Geographic has finally decided to do a balanced and accurate story on intelligent design, instead of the emotional, fallacy-ridden tirades other "scholarly" magazines have produced.
self-ping for a later look-see
Well that didn't take too long. A nicely written article. I especially liked how the author identified the folks quoted even when mentioning the interviewees for a second or even third time. For example "According to Miller, the Brown University biologist..." usually in articles I'm searching back up thinking "Which one is Miller?, Wait, who was that guy?", etc.
What amazes me is the fear of God the evolutionists have, I've never really understood that.
I'm working my way through William Dembski's The Design Revolution. Intelligent Design is not simple "creation science". How can you, looking at any given thing, determine if a mind was involved in it's creation?
Natural causes would be those in accord with the order that one sees in the universe. It depends, does not not, on whether on takes an idealistic or a relaistic view of that order. Is it "out there," or is it in the mind? I don't see that science can have a basis in the notion that the order is illusionary. Intelligent design proposes a kind of determinism that amounts to predestination. Radical evolutionists, such as Dawkins, deny that, but don't admit that their view is based largely on modern idealism.
If the parameters in which life can develop are narrow, such as a an earth-like planet within a narrow zone of the Milky Way, then that suggests that a gardner is at work.
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