Re: Kurt Vonnegut endorses ID on NPR


Harlequin wrote:
> I am listening to Kurt Vonnegut on NPR ("The Long View"
> series of segments) right now. He has endorsed ID.
> Scientists are a tribe. (He does of course accept
> evolution.)
>
> This is. A real disappointment. This is very good
> evidence of just how sucessful the ID movement has been
> in tricking even very smart people. Including one
> who is a "humanist" who rejects organized religion.
>
> Science supporters really need to consider why we
> don't have someone who really should be on our side.

Science is a fine context for experimentation and observation, however
when all is said and done, it is just method. "Survival of the
fittest" dictates adaptability. If there is a means of survival beyond
death, a good Darwinist must try to adapt. There comes a point in every
man's education, when it is revealed as pure folly to allow one's self
to be damned on principle. In the final context, atheism is only a
principle.


JTG 1/23/06

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