Re: A Fine Napoleonic Retreat
- From: Frank J <fnci@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:01:59 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 28, 6:14 am, "Devil's Advocaat" <mankyg...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Observe the process by which the certainty of their position appears
to be crumbling into doubt.
Creationism – God did it.
If you mean classic creationism, it also included what God did, and
when. Nothing on the "how," of course, and no testing of the whats and
whens. And basing it all on sought and fabricated "weaknesses" of
evolution instead of on it's own merits.
Intelligent Design – Somebody did it.
IOW a retreat from the designer's identity (and whether or not it is
the creator too). But more importantly a reatreat from stating whats
and whens (which were mutually contradictory anyway) to "don't ask,
don't tell what the designer did when."
Design Inference – It looks like somebody did it.
I wonder what the next step is going to be?
The next step *was* "don't teach ID, only the 'weaknesses' of
evolution." Then it was "academic freedom," which is really "academic
anarchy".
My guess to the next step is more of the "what is science?" rhetoric
that degenerates into an endless word game. One in which pseudoscience
almost always wins in the mind of nonscientists. If they can get
sufficiently fundamentalist or postmodern judges, my fear is that that
approach can win in court as well as the "court of public opinion."
Most other "evolutionists" are more confident than I am that the scam
artists will lose the next court battles, but they don't give me much
hope because they insist on framing it as "us vs. the creationists"
instead of "us vs. all sorts of scam artists hiding under a big tent,
and skilled at uniting rank and file creationists and dividing
scientists."
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