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09/02/05
A universal debate - In Iowa
Reid Forgrave, of the Des Moines Register, gives a detailed look at the life and worldview of Dr. Gonzalez, and some of the thoughts of rivals Hector Avalos, an associate professor of religious studies at Iowa State who is also the faculty adviser for the ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society, and Jim Colbert, an associate professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at ISU.
"Anytime you incorporate the possibility of a supernatural explanation, you can't accumulate any evidence," said Colbert. We're not saying no one should believe in intelligent design. It's just that you can't accumulate evidence, so it's not science," he further added.
These are odd assertions from a learned professor, since ID professes that there is an intelligent designer, without pursuing the identity of the designer. The precise identity is, indeed, beyond science. What Colbert is saying is that we could never determine whether a person with five bullets holes in his chest died of natural causes or was the victim of a malevolent intelligent agent, because we could never gather any evidence from the crime scene to determine whether there was a crime committed. We could never determine if Mt. Rushmore came to be from the natural forces of rain, snow, and wind, or if a talented sculptor and his assistants took years to carve out the rock, because we could gather no evidence to determine the cause (natural or agent causation) of the effect (Mt. Rushmore).
The ISU petition against ID said "it's becoming increasingly clear to some of us that Iowa State University is being marketed as an intelligent design research center."
This is interesting, because on one hand people from NCSE (Glenn Branch and Eugenie Scott) tell ID theorists and researchers to get busy, do the work and get it through the peer-review process, but the idea of a ID research center is out-of-bounds. Who is being disingenuous?
For the full article, click HERE.
'Intelligent design' may enter classrooms in Australia
In the 7:30 Report on ABC in Australia, Geoff Hutchinson has a discussion about the current mindset of ID opponents and proponents.
To read the transcript of the show, click HERE.
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