Deniers of intelligent design, think again

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Shaun Johnston:
In modern times we've made two revolutionary discoveries. One is, how changes in physical matter can be accounted for in terms of physical laws that can predict precisely what will happen next. Having given rise to science (how this can be studied) and industry (how it can be applied) this revolution is well under way.

The second revolution is, how emergence of species of living creatures can be accounted for in terms of them evolving from one another. This revolution, despite its promise of how much it could tell us about ourselves, remains stillborn through the mistaken application to it of principles coming out of the first revolution--reductive physicalism.

For this second revolution to advance it should be taken from under the wing of science and studied on its own terms. Tip: one recent product of evolution is creatures with minds. Minds are better studied through methods of the humanities than through those of science. Tell me, does this interest you?

Details: Written by Shaun Johnston Shaun Johnston; Published: August 8, 2012 August 8, 2012; Hits: 3714 3714

If you want to turn someone into a figure of fun, get them to insist, ABSOLUTELY INSIST, that something that obviously is true, “ain’t so.” That’s what some genius did to the neo-Darwinists, getting them to insist, ABSOLUTELY INSIST, that living creatures aren’t intelligently designed. Of course, what they mean is that, although living creatures are in fact intelligently designed, there’s not really any designer. I still think it makes them look silly, because they’re saying that they, and you and I, are not intelligently designed, though we, as human beings, can design intelligently. In fact, that’s almost the definition of “sapiens” in “Homo sapiens.” Tool making is definitely an example of intelligent design. Full article...