Reciprocating Bill
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Joined: Oct. 2006
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The author packs a lot into a short paragraph:
| Quote | | Maybe it's because for so many years the logical alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution, which is grounded on such foundations as random selection and survival of the fittest, has been disregarded and ridiculed by the scientific community. And intelligent design, as it is called, presumes the existence of God, or at least an outside intelligence influencing life, according to a critic of the university. |
There is so much here. I like "random selection." Why not also "natural mutation?" Spencer/Huxley's 140 year old sound bite. The notion that ID is necessarily the "logical alternative" to evolutionary theory. And (*moment of embarassment*), the frank admission that ID presumes the existence of God.
That's a lot of errortainment to pack into one paragraph. (He did get the "disregarded and ridiculed by the scientific community" part right.)
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Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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