Is Intelligent Design Validating Scientific Panic in Evolutionary Theory?

[onycho]

Originally posted by Evo

No, my point is that if it is an accident, it is random, it does not need to be precise. But in order for someone to *intentially* achieve this, they would have to have been *incredibly & unimaginably* precise. Doesn't seem very likely.

Correct... In order for someone to intentiionally achieve this level of unimaginable precision doesn't seem very likely. But are we talking about Jack Sprout or Ossama Bin Laden being so precise?

I am a layman and the article you posted stated that the average American would be more likely to believe in ID. I'm pretty average & I don't believe it. I'm just using common sense.

I didn't state that any average American or human being would be more or less likely to believe in ID. Most people don't even care to consider random choice or ID at any time in their lives.

On Copyright Law. I suggest that you go to the crosswalk website, Terms of Use, then scroll down to Copyright and read what it says there.

I have... and have contacted Crosswalk.com about their policy and it's proper use on a chat line. I await their reply and will post it when received. Shoot that dead dog one more time...

 

[Evo]

Originally posted by onycho
One example will be sufficient.

I don't have the time right now to look things up for you when you know very well that there is plenty of evidence to back up my comment. If you don't, you should read more.

By the way, what proof do you have of someone or something doing this "by design", since you are asking *us* to believe *you* the burden of proof is on you and you alone.

 

[Zero]

Originally posted by onycho
Originally posted by Fliption

I have to agree with Zero here...

You are correct in your assumption that Albert Mohler is a Baptist preacher and as such is speaking from his religious perspective.

Professor Steven Weinberg was educated at Cornell University, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Princeton University and has received honorary doctoral degrees from a dozen other universities.

Professor Weinberg is an avowed skeptic, if I understand him correctly has his doubts. He wrote in "life as we know it' would be impossible if anyone of several physical quantities had slight different values... One constant does seem to require incredible fine tuning." (Scientific American, October 1994). This constant has to do with the energy of the big bang, Weinberg quantifies the tuning as one part in 10> (130). Scientific notation is an understatement and so I will expand that potential into decimal notation. If the energy of the big bang were different by one part out of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 there would be no life in our universe. The universe is tuned for life from its inception, when life first appears.

Michael Turner, the widely quoted astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and Fermilab, described that tuning with a simile: "The precision,” he said, "is as if one could throw a dart across the entire universe and hit a bull’s-eye one millimeter in diameter on the other side."

Scientists discover astonishing facts every day. Whether it's physicists realizing how a tiny difference in temperature at the time of the big bang would have obviated the possibility of life as we know it, or biochemists discovering the miraculously complex, delicately balanced molecular machinery that makes blood clotting possible, scientists face the wonder of our existence very directly. Why, then, is it that a hard core of vocal scientists are avowed atheists, taking their discoveries of the wonders of nature as sufficiently edifying ends in themselves.

Slow random chance occurrences of gas bubbles in a flask cannot account for a broken tea cup, over time and by chance returning to its original state. One may ignore reality in order to continue believing the world is flat.

http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/Hawking/early_proto/weinberg.html

Signs that someone is lying or misinformed about evolution and/or creationism:

#4: When their attack on evolution fails, they switch topics. The origin of the universe has nothing to do with evolution, a fact that anti-evolutionists are unable to comprehend

Oh, and did you see how he gave me permission to post here?!? Wasn't that cute?

 

[Evo]

Originally posted by Fliption
Hmm that doesn't make any sense.

Maybe not to you. Ok, then explain how something that impossible to achieve is more likely to be done on purpose than it being an accident.

 

[Zero]

For those of you who have been following the copyright issue, and Kerrie whenever you look at this thread, here is Crosswalk.com's Copyright Statement:

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Now, if they give you permission after the fact, that's fine too...but at the time of the first post, no permission was given, and was therefore an illegal usage of Crosswalk.com's intellectual property. Fair use laws usually make small quotes from a larger essay non-actionable, but simply cutting and pasting an entire essay without permission is generally illegal.

 

[Zero]

For instance, I believe it just got onycho banned from Physics Forums. Have a nice day, and thanks for your participation.

-Zero

 

[Evo]

Originally posted by onycho
I didn't state that any average American or human being would be more or less likely to believe in ID. Most people don't even care to consider random choice or ID at any time in their lives.

I said the article, you wrote the article? But I stand corrected, the article says that most Americans would be unable to accept a theory that everything just *happened*, without any design. I disagree.

 

[Evo]

and another one bites the dust...

 

[Nereid]

But why was this thread in General Philosophy in the first place? If it's about evolution, shouldn't it be in Biology?

Or, if we want to discuss a philosophy topic, why not the anthropic principle?

 

[Evo]

Good point Nereid, but you always have good points.

 

[Kerrie]

topic is locked due to copyright infringement...

congratulations onycho, you have successfully gained my attention at scrutinizing your posts more carefully, now my credibility in you to supply information in a positive and non-antagonzing way has been flushed down the PF toilet...

perhaps you would like to re-read our PF policies in the feedback forum and try again? or does this sort of attention feed your inner child adequately?