RE: Fundie Uncle
January 24, 2014 at 11:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2014 at 11:47 pm by Mudhammam.)
(January 24, 2014 at 11:28 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Who said that a tornado was chaos?
It is a little long, but listen to the first hour and thirty minutes and you'll have a thorough understanding of the fundamental problem with ID:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CnZ3n8I5b8
I find Ruse's analogy of the Indian rope trick to be particularly insightful.
According to Wiki:
"-In the simplest version, a long piece of rope would be left in a basket and placed in an open field, usually by a fakir. The rope would levitate, with no external support. His boy assistant, Jamoora, would climb the rope and then descend.
-A more elaborate version would find the magician (or his assistant) disappearing after reaching the top of the rope, then reappearing at ground level.
-The "classic" version, however, was much more detailed: the rope would seem to rise high into the skies, disappearing from view. The boy would climb the rope and be lost to view. The magician would call back his boy assistant, and, on getting no response, become furious. The magician would then arm himself with a knife or sword, climb the rope, and vanish as well. An argument would be heard, and then limbs would start falling, presumably cut from the assistant by the magician. When all the parts of the body, including the torso, landed on the ground, the magician would climb down the rope. He would collect the limbs and put them in a basket, or collect the limbs in one place and cover them with a cape or blanket. Soon the boy would appear, restored."
Does any of that caste doubt on Newton's law of universal gravitation? Of course not because tricks are involved. Likewise, "tricks" are involved in the evolution of non-self-replicating matter into self-replicators, through some currently unknown synthesizing chemicals, followed by selective pressures that lead to more complex molecular structures such as RNA and then DNA. Among the tricks involve the right combination of chemicals, an apparently turbulent and unguided process, and then natural selection. There are working theories, some very plausible, as to other factors but nobody is certain about all the processes yet.
