Re: [asa] lock-picking tools

From: David Campbell <pleuronaia@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Oct 15 2008 - 12:30:29 EDT

> So here is the interesting question for me: Can science find or map its own
> "rock wall" boundary or even conclude that such a boundary exists? IDs say, in
> principle, YES. ECs say, in principle: NO. And militant atheists say: "no
> such boundaries for science exist at all." IDs and ECs (as Christians) should
> at least be able to unite in their opposition to the last category and only
> differ in how such a boundary can be explicated.

I would say that it is possible in principle that such a boundary
exists. I would tend to draw a semantic line and suggest that such a
boundary would probably be dicovered by the failure of science, rather
than being discovered by science. I would also say that the
ID-proposed ways of detecting boundaries are no good and that
theological and empirical evidence suggests there probably aren't any
gaps requiring unmediated intelligent intervention within the course
of evolution or of forming the universe from big bang to now.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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