RE: Questions about God and Science
October 20, 2012 at 11:25 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2012 at 11:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 20, 2012 at 11:14 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: 1. Only because he's a pro philosopher with a PHd and a professor of philosophy at University of Colorado. He's also more sympathetic to atheism than I am.What would be compelling would be presenting evidence for ID.
Quote:2. You may not care, but I do. It was my original question. Why is intelligent design automatically off the table as a possibility in science? What are the reasons intelligent design should never be taken seriously as science? My sense is that people are too emotionally invested in how they want the answers to be to feel comfortable with having a serious debate about ID. Otherwise, why not seriously hash the thing out? And if it has been hashed out - where? By who? Who's had that conversation?It wasn't, in fact the entirety of scientific endeavor was once very much a search for god. ID has been "seriously hashed out" and the reasons that it is not science have nothing to do with how people want answers to be. Where-across the entirety of this planet. By whom-biologists, who, in looking for explanations for these things found gods (and intelligent designs, and irreducable complexieties) to be curiously absent (as absent as they are in our textbooks...but in this case less curiously).
Quote:3. I also listened to a lengthy interview where he offered more than in his blog. I won't try to speak for him. I suppose if you read his book or spent a little more time reading what he's got to say you could hear his reasons for thinking that ID is worthwhile as science.Or, you could summarize his strongest points (in your estimation) as the person who offered the example................. At some point Akin..you will have to be willing to stand behind these things which you offer up.
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