[lit-ideas] Re: Flipping the Bird At ID
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:12:49 -0700
For those interested in a refutation of Intelligent Design that is,
um, somewhat more systematic, I recommend Eric Schneider and Dorion
Sagan's Into the Cool : Energy flow, thermodynamics, and life,
Chicago : U. of Chicago Press, 2005.
The "intelligent design" issue is an extremely limited attack on science. There is no
religious extremist attacks on quantum mechanics, cosmology, relativity, thermodynamics, and
so on. There is no attack on mathematics: algebra, fractal geometry, chaos theory, and so
on.
Maybe this is similar to the "warm and fuzzy" problem with endangered species: people want
to save pandas (warm and fuzzy) but nobody cares about lemon sharks. The religious
extremists discuss life (specifically, human life) because it's close to home, but they
ignore all of the other areas of science because it's too abstract for their audience.
So maybe just let them think that they were created by an alien intelligence. Whatever. We
get everything else in knowledge.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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