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10/20/04
Origins Discussed at Iowa State University (3)
An article by Lucas Grundmeier in The Iowa State Daily stated that two atheist professors at Iowa State University attempted to show that ID is illegitimate as a scientific endeavor.
They claimed that "Design can't be separated from the designer." In a sense, this is true. If you found an SUV in the desert, you intuitively know that it didn't appear from random natural processes, but rather, was designed and manufactured by intelligent agents. You are able to infer certain characteristics of the designers and those for whom the SUV was made. For instance, the designers paid careful attention to details, and in some fashion, valued those for whom the SUV was made. This we can intuitively recognize. ID doesn't even take this legitimately reasoned step in identifying the designer(s).
The professors also claimed that ID fails "to identify anything substantive about that designer...and this failure destroys the scientific validity of those arguments." Well, you don't need to know exactly who the designer is to know that that thing was designed. Once you have established that something is designed, you can go on and ask who designed it. This step may not be a scientific endeavor, but rather knowledge revealed to us by the designing agent.
Dr. Patterson made several bold assertions, none backed up with evidence. My favorite was "Science thrives on unanswered questions, religion, by contrast, thrives on unquestioned answers." Patterson's closeminded view of reality dooms him to be a perpetual seeker and not an eventual finder. He also thinks that "intelligent design theorists have an ulterior motive in their work." And atheists don't????
The two professors haul out the false dichotomy that science and faith are not overlapping magisteria.
The bottom line is that the same old arguments are being paraded out, and people who are not careful thinkers buy into the rhetoric.
We are all seeking out the truth concerning the nature of reality. The atheistic worldview boxes itself in, and is more closeminded, by only accepting naturalistic answers to the origins question. The ID worldview is willing to be more openminded, and entertains the possibility that reality can be explained in both a naturalistic and supernaturalistic sense. Let's just look carefully at the evidence from an openminded worldview, and let the best worldview prevail. What could be more fair-minded than that approach in the academic and public arenas?
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