Posted on 10/14/2009 8:47:36 AM PDT by bogusname
Atheist author Richard Dawkins has made it loud and clear that he believes faith has no place in science and that a public debate between him and a creationist – of any type – is out of the question. “The objection to having debates with people like that (creationists) is that it gives them a kind of respectability,” Dawkins said during a recent appearance on the Michael Medved show. “If a real scientist goes onto a debating platform with a creationist, it gives them a respectability, which I do not think your people have earned,” he told Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman, whose organization is best known for its advocacy of Intelligent Design. Following that same logic, Dawkins insisted in another media appearance that only “evidence” can lay the groundwork for science, not “superstition, authority, holy books or revelation.”
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Wrong. ID simply points out phenomenon for which a naturalistic explanation is implausible. If John Armstrong found a slot machine on the moon, nobody would be postulating that it was formed by natural forces, all discussion would be about what intelligence force created it and put it there. The DNA molecule is far more complex than a slot machine. Yes, naturalism can explain much complexity but it has its limits.
Abiogenisis and evolution are also a Creation Story. If Dawkins would just stop using science as a basis for Ahiest evangelism then he wouldn’t put himself in the repeated pickles he gets into. Same goes for science in general, stop using science to promote the religion of Athiesm and ID will probably just go away.
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