In a message dated 9/12/2000 2:21:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
rwein@lineone.net writes:
<< My thanks to Stephen for confirming that mainstream scientists do not rule
out intelligent design on philosophical grounds.
>>
Indeed. Design inferences are used in many areas quite succesfully. Even Behe
and Demski have pointed this out.
<< There's nothing unscientific about searching for ID. What's unscientific is
claiming to have found ID based on bogus arguments. I'm sure many SETI
researchers would love to demonstrate the existence of extraterrestrial ID,
but, being scientists, they patiently go about the task of searching for
evidence, rather than running a propaganda camapign claiming to have found
evidence when there is none >>
It would impress me far more if the ID movement were to find independent
evidence of design from "evolutionary pathways have not (yet) been
identified" or "we don't know how it may have arisen naturally therefor".
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