This is an interesting articel from Wired magazine that chronicles the debate over Darwinism and Intelligent Design evolutionary theory in USA public schools.
If you're unfamiliar with it, the ID theory concludes that natural selection can't explain the "irreducible complexity" of molecular mechanisms like the bacterial flagellum, because its integrated parts offer no selective advantages on their own, so there must be a designer. Apparently people point to both God and Aliens; both seem somewhat logical to me. Why the hell not? I just can't imagine that science has all the answers. And the article doesn't even attempt to refute ID theory, just pretty much states that the followers are all inase, which they very well might be. But obviously science and the methodological materialism are missing something big in the way they look at humans. I'm not a biologist and can't grasp the concepts of chaos well enough to comprehend the complexity of random mutations. And as yet, no biologist have been able to explain it well enough to me. Plus I like believeing aliens begat humanity. Convince me otherwise, if you wish.
Posted by bluprnt at September 29, 2004 10:48 PMits true. random selection is insufficient. people dont want to accept the etheric form, or plato's "absolute". but it exists. this brings non-physical reality into science, which is its mortal enemy, so its tough to combine them with any result. but these etheric forms do exist and the physical grows to them- is pulled to them, like flowers to the sun. the secret trick that makes it work is infinity. all of us new-age physicists understand the 'many worlds theory', which basically states that there are an infinite number of realities that anything exists in until it is locked into one by observation. this is the essence of quantum theory. (see schrodinger's cat). its hard for people to accept that something _actually exists_ in different realities. they are too focused on the idea of 'imaginary possibilities'. what they dont realize is that the mind is quantum and those imaginations are realities that actually exist,only to be dissolved by your conscious observation of them. but those realities can be, rather than "created", _grown to_. thats what evolution does. it charges, full fledged, into the abyss, only to be drawn to one of two magnets- chaos and order. and its fuel is faith. yes sometimes faith is wrong and sometimes its right, but its the fuel that links the physical with the absolute, and the essence of evolution. NOt randomness.
There. See? They're not all insane. ;-)
LOL.
Anyways, believing in evolution isn't the same as believing that "science has all the answers." Evolution is just the best theory that fits the facts; including the fossil record, DNA similarities between species, how ecosystems came to be, and many other things in a wide variety of fields.
"Intelligent design" doesn't explain both the fossil record and how things came to be as they are today, because by their argument all life on earth was designed, which is contradicted by the fossil record. ID doesn't explain that without ridiculous theories about how they were planted to make us think evolution is real.
Feel free to ask an ID person for proof of his theory that explains all of the facts instead of simply trying to disprove evolution and you'll find that most can't do it. The vast majority prefer to simply attack evolution for its supposed holes instead because that allows them to avoid talking about the far more inexplicable problems in their own theories. They usually erroneously assume that if they can shoot down evolution that they're the only game left in town.
In short, ID is a poorly supported claim posing as science, but evolution is real science.
Posted by: X at August 11, 2005 06:13 PM