Chris Hyland
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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Thanks for the overview, although I have to say I'm stll confused on what the pont of the course was, especially since everyone who attended appeared to have made their minds up based on current evidence, so it was obvious from the start that no one would change their mind.
Does anyone know if the ID advocates present agreed with the official outcome of the course regarding the scientific status of ID?
| Quote | | If the point were to examine a part of the culture wars, the political aspects of ID would have been front and center, and there would have been no attempt to avoid discussing the political aspects and pretend that it's all just "science". |
Yes the mixing of the culture wars and science seems very bizaare and counterproductive to me.
| Quote | | Alas, ID simply doesn't have anything to do with science, and everything to do with politics. |
Agreed, the only avantage of focusing strictly on the science would be to show that stripped to the bare bones any scientific claim of ID is based simply on unreasonable demands of evidence or mischaracterisations of evolution. But this has been done a hundred times before.
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