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“...and breathtakingly banal. Although Luskin & Co. are great pretenders to liberty and free inquiry, there is an almost audible smirk to be heard in each of these recordings (along with the rather disagreeable theme music). While the DI podcasts are interesting exercises in how best to
construct dishonest polemics and logically flawed arguments, and therefore useful for those who need to create the latest "squirrel-killers", as we used to call them in secondary-school forensics, please don't confuse DI method with scientific method. There is nothing of science at the Institute, unless it is the science of deception and chicanery, as the previously mentioned Wedge Document all too clearly indicates. This should be easily detected: consider the level of proof demanded of science by those who create this effluvium of drivel. Is it not curious, when one takes into account that similar proofs are not demanded of their own few supporting texts; Behe, Dembski, Johnson, the Bible... ID proponents are fond of demanding greater and greater levels of experimental evidence from the work of real scientists (and let's be clear, science repeatedly rises to that challenge), while producing neither experiement nor predictive hypothesis of their own. Their answer to any seemingly insoluble conundrum in any science? "It must have been the Intelligent Designer." They routinely resurrect this "god of the gaps" because they have nothing to show for their effort. And at last "Intelligent Design" is revealed in its true form, old-school creationism in a cheap frock, wearing too much rouge and self-consciously adjusting her over-permed hair? Creationists and ID-ophiles allow no room for questioning of their position, while, painful as it might be, any given science can be turned upside-down overnight by verifiable, reproducible evidence that directly controverts a given tenent of any scientific theory. For example, finding a genuine fossil hominid in the midst of the Burgess Shale would up-end the foundations of several sciences at a stroke, but once it could be verified and agreement reached by a majority of the scientific community, it would be accepted, and science, not to mention scientific understanding, would change.
At the end of the day, I can't help but feel a slight pity for people who are so deluded by a cobbled-together patchwork of nomadic superstition about the last of the angry sky-gods, and who refuse to submit themselves to the most basic philosophical self-examination. How pleasant it must be to be free of that self-doubt which afflicts the rest of us, the naturalists, scientists, non-theists, philosophers, and anyone who cannot accept the dogma of a single, inflexible position. Nevertheless, they are at liberty to believe whatever nonsense they like, right up to the point when their attempts to subvert education and curricula impact me, or my children, or anyone else who rejects their attentions. Let them witter on in darkness and miss the splendour all around them of the natural world and the universe if they wish - it's their loss.”Read full review »
SonicScrewdriver via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/19/07
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