Re: The Aphenomenon of Abiogenesis

From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 09:42:59 EDT

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    Glenn Morton wrote:

    >
    > I respectfully disagree. The only reason the ID group is doing what they are
    > doing is to show that God designed the universe. Lots of people have signed
    > on to that agenda. But, in the end, if you can't rule out green men or
    > Vishnu as the creator, then the ID agenda is taking people down a logical
    > dead end and thus is a waste of time, effort, trees and ink. Any agenda
    > which has no hope of accomplishing what most people want it to is worse than
    > useless because of all the wasted and misspent effort chasing a logical
    > impossibillity. It is a waste of apologetical talent.

    I recently read a book "signs of intelligence" edited by Demski and Kushiner. It
    is all about ID and Darwinian theory. My conclusions are that:

    1.) ID supports the notion that Darwin's concept of evolution by natural
    selection is wrong.

    2.) Most people agree with that statement and the scientific community has
    failed to convince people to the contrary.

    3.) ID is a scientific measure attempting to prove that natural selection cannot
    work.

    I do not think that the book did a good job of proving #3 but that is not to say
    that such a notion is a bad idea. It does not matter what the alternatives are
    (green men or whatever) if the point could ever be proven.

    I don't agree with ID, but I also think that extreme defense of natural
    selection (As in Dawkins) only hurts the scientific approach to understanding
    how things actually did happen. In fact, Darwin himself strongly stated that he
    did not consider natural selection as the only method by which things evolved.

    Walt

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    Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>

    In any consistent theory, there must
    exist true but not provable statements.
    (Godel's Theorem)

    You can only find the truth with logic
    If you have already found the truth
    without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
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