Compelling and interesting. I agree with the authors conclusion. I have studied evolution extensively in school, and I have also read mike behe's book "darwins black box," which is considered the bible of intelligent design (aside from the actual bible). What offends me the most about intelligent design is exactly the point the author spoke about: that it is a non science. ID essentially ends debate by saying "we don't know how this structure could have evolved, so it MUST be designed." that isn't good science, its a cop out. We can find answers, we just need to keep looking and thinking. What the enlightenment accomplished was to free western society from the dark ages of religion and superstition dictating out understanding of nature. Since the scopes monkey trial, biblical literalists have attempted to hijack and undermine the scientific pursuit of evolution as some sort of offensive anti religious theory when in fact it really is not a theological issue for all but the most biblically ignorant. Now Christian religious fanatics have stopped stem cell research, even when clever and inventive scientists have up with a method of deriving embryonic stem cells while preserving the viability of the embryo. This ignorance of fact and blind nay saying is frightening. Of course, our scientific pursuits should be tempered by our ethics and values, but ignorance and blind faith are not a substitute for informed morality. Another example is a law recently struck down in second reading in the Ga congress, which, if passed, would prevent women with ectopic pregnancies from receiving abortions from their physician without a court order. Ectopic pregnancies are when the fertilized egg impants in the fallopian tube (or other places) instead of in the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies will always self abort, and if allowed to come to that point, will cause a massive hemmhorage which will probably kill the mother. But fanatically right wing Christians are so uninformed and willingly ignorant, or perhaps just stubborn, that instead of considering a mothers life where a fetus would die anyways, they want to require a court order before allowing a doctor to save a life. And the questioning of evolution has opened the door on wholesale ignorance of scientific fact and progress.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
ID and humanity
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=15-answers-to-creationist
Compelling and interesting. I agree with the authors conclusion. I have studied evolution extensively in school, and I have also read mike behe's book "darwins black box," which is considered the bible of intelligent design (aside from the actual bible). What offends me the most about intelligent design is exactly the point the author spoke about: that it is a non science. ID essentially ends debate by saying "we don't know how this structure could have evolved, so it MUST be designed." that isn't good science, its a cop out. We can find answers, we just need to keep looking and thinking. What the enlightenment accomplished was to free western society from the dark ages of religion and superstition dictating out understanding of nature. Since the scopes monkey trial, biblical literalists have attempted to hijack and undermine the scientific pursuit of evolution as some sort of offensive anti religious theory when in fact it really is not a theological issue for all but the most biblically ignorant. Now Christian religious fanatics have stopped stem cell research, even when clever and inventive scientists have up with a method of deriving embryonic stem cells while preserving the viability of the embryo. This ignorance of fact and blind nay saying is frightening. Of course, our scientific pursuits should be tempered by our ethics and values, but ignorance and blind faith are not a substitute for informed morality. Another example is a law recently struck down in second reading in the Ga congress, which, if passed, would prevent women with ectopic pregnancies from receiving abortions from their physician without a court order. Ectopic pregnancies are when the fertilized egg impants in the fallopian tube (or other places) instead of in the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies will always self abort, and if allowed to come to that point, will cause a massive hemmhorage which will probably kill the mother. But fanatically right wing Christians are so uninformed and willingly ignorant, or perhaps just stubborn, that instead of considering a mothers life where a fetus would die anyways, they want to require a court order before allowing a doctor to save a life. And the questioning of evolution has opened the door on wholesale ignorance of scientific fact and progress.
Compelling and interesting. I agree with the authors conclusion. I have studied evolution extensively in school, and I have also read mike behe's book "darwins black box," which is considered the bible of intelligent design (aside from the actual bible). What offends me the most about intelligent design is exactly the point the author spoke about: that it is a non science. ID essentially ends debate by saying "we don't know how this structure could have evolved, so it MUST be designed." that isn't good science, its a cop out. We can find answers, we just need to keep looking and thinking. What the enlightenment accomplished was to free western society from the dark ages of religion and superstition dictating out understanding of nature. Since the scopes monkey trial, biblical literalists have attempted to hijack and undermine the scientific pursuit of evolution as some sort of offensive anti religious theory when in fact it really is not a theological issue for all but the most biblically ignorant. Now Christian religious fanatics have stopped stem cell research, even when clever and inventive scientists have up with a method of deriving embryonic stem cells while preserving the viability of the embryo. This ignorance of fact and blind nay saying is frightening. Of course, our scientific pursuits should be tempered by our ethics and values, but ignorance and blind faith are not a substitute for informed morality. Another example is a law recently struck down in second reading in the Ga congress, which, if passed, would prevent women with ectopic pregnancies from receiving abortions from their physician without a court order. Ectopic pregnancies are when the fertilized egg impants in the fallopian tube (or other places) instead of in the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies will always self abort, and if allowed to come to that point, will cause a massive hemmhorage which will probably kill the mother. But fanatically right wing Christians are so uninformed and willingly ignorant, or perhaps just stubborn, that instead of considering a mothers life where a fetus would die anyways, they want to require a court order before allowing a doctor to save a life. And the questioning of evolution has opened the door on wholesale ignorance of scientific fact and progress.
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