Why didn't you answer my question?
What do you make of this?
If Darwinism is 'science' then so is ID for both are formally similar in structure. The Royal Society's motto is 'nullius in verba': open, unprejudiced, uninhibited enquiry - unstifled debate. But this whole anti-ID controversy is designed to stifle debate. It is the rhetoric of thought control, not debate.
Why? Is the evidence so poor on behalf of Darwinism that just one hour of a DVD "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" can overturn 150 years of evidence? The reality is the experimental data is so poor on the fundamentals of life's origin, the computer like program that is DNA is itself sufficient to raise profound questions about chance processes giving rise to inordinate complexity. As Bill Gates says "Human DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any we've ever created".
Darwinism is 'Science' because it fits ab initio the arbitrary definition of science that functions today: science has to seek "natural" explanations. The Royal Society's motto knows nothing of such constraints. These are a later imposed self-serving feature of the fundamentalist ideology of Naturalism, itself an atheist world-view.
Darwinism is scratching around looking for experimental evidence in support of the creative power of natural selection, the supposed driving force of Darwinian Evolution. Absent experimental data it is simply an act of blind faith that sustains this quest in support of the dogma of natural selection. Natural selection is shown to be primarily a mechanism which stabilises the species: entirely the opposite that Darwinism claims it to be.
The second and more fundamental question for Darwinism is "Abiogenesis" - from 'mud to man'. There is no known experimental demonstration that chemicals will self-organise into a living reproducing cell.
Darwinism is an article of faith. If not, why is it that one of the classic peer-reviewed ID-friendly papers led to the hounding out of the journal's editor, Richard Sternberg, PhD PhD? It is because he was considered a heretic by the 'Established Church of Darwin". Dogma knows only extermination as the remedy.
Let science be true to the Royal Society Motto. Bring on the debate and let the best tested explanations win.
Posted by: Peter Loose | 30 November 2006 at 11:58 PM
Michael
I am chuckling about the effect of that DVD!
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