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12/18/05
Decision expected Tuesday in 'intelligent design' lawsuit
The Dover trial decision by Judge John E. Jones III is expected on Tuesday. Read this article by Ap in the Philadelphia Daily News.
Group backs away from KU professor
In the continuing saga of Dr. Paul Mirecki, backers of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Kansas have sent a postcard to potential donors, seeking to distance themselves from the department’s former chairman. Read the article by AP picked up by the Kansas City Star.
'Intelligent Design' Deja Vu
This column by Douglas Baynton in the Washington Post is the kind of muddled thinking that will bring further shame to, and possibly eventually bring down the Darwinists.
Baynton presents a false dichotomy: either understand the world as a meaningful place of beauty and purpose or a mechanical, meaningless accident to be understood via material causes only.
Given this false dichotomy, it's amazing how much scientific progress was made when many scientists were theists in the 17th and 18th centuries.
According to Baynton, since theistic scientists said silly or stupid things in the 19th century, then ID is worthy of ridicule today. Following that line of argument, since Darwin was a racist, then Neo-Darwinism isn't worth holding to today!
One who follows ID closely commented that "Braynton is committing the fallacy of composition, arguing that whatever is true of the parts of something must true of the whole. Some 19th century design thinkers said stupid things, but it does not follow from that that those stupid statements get transferred to all design advocates. It would be like saying, 'Stephen Douglas and other 19th century Democrats believed that states should have the right to permit slavery, so therefore, if 21st century Democrats were to achieve political power again, then we would see a resurgence of proslavery-state rhetoric.'"
Baynton's thinking needs to be exposed for what it is...nonsense.
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