RE: Use of words crucial to debate

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 07:15:10 -0700

Bertvan: However, whether a scientist believes in purpose will influence where he looks for new answers.

But not as a scientists as much as a religious person. "purpose" or ID has little or nothing to contribute to science/

Bertvan: A scientist not believing in purpose will be quite content with "random mutation and natural selection" while a scientist believing in purpose will look for more complex, rational mechanisms-mechanisms which relate to all of nature.

Or as we see, they will ignore reality in favor of their faith interpretations of His words.

Bertvan: No scientist believing in purpose would be content to label 95% of the genome "junk".

Unsupported assertion. That people need to find "purpose" is more a human problem. That some insist on finding purpose even when evidence is lacking is quite indicative of this problem.