From: Cmekve@aol.com
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 21:08:42 EST
A few weeks ago (?) I mentioned the review of Dembski's new book by H. Allen
Orr in the Boston Review. The latest issue has a discussion by Dembski and a
reply by Orr. It is online at http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.5/exchange.html
Dembski's is the usual ID-shuffle, but Orr closes with a sentiment familiar
to this list. He says:
"Dembski, Behe and associates may in the end prove a thorn in the side of not
only biologists but also the devout. By promising devastating objections to
evolution but delivering half-baked technobabble that disintegrates upon
close inspection, they subject certain religious persons to unnecessary and
traumatic cycles of expectation and dashed hope. The point is that all
skirmishes involve risk of friendly fire and the faithful will, sooner or
later, have to ask who poses the greater actual danger: those who merely
suggest that life evolves or those who routinely announce "proofs" of the
handiwork of an interventionist Designer--proofs that have, so far, been
fantastically flawed, noisily imploding almost immediately after their much
publicized debuts."
Sound familiar?
Karl
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Karl V. Evans
cmekve@aol.com
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