Seversky
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| Quote (oldmanintheskydidntdoit @ Jan. 15 2012,13:22) | New Dembski interview.
Link.
Mentions of the global flood he had to accept as real in order to keep his job: Zero.
| Quote | | Ultimately, I think ID will win. A few years ago, I thought I’d be around to see its victory. Now, I’m not so sure. The Bible actually gives me great comfort in this regard, because one sees in it that God’s purposes are not generally carried out by the flamboyant, well-placed, and powerful. But in the end, the false prophets are always clearly identified, and those who were true are vindicated. ID, in my view, plays a prophetic role for our culture. |
But what's ID got to do with the Bible Dembski? |
The religious thread that runs through that interview clearly gives the lie to the claim that Intrelligent Design is a purely scientific program. Of course, it is possible to investigate whether design can be identified reliably regardless of any knowledge of the source but that doesn't change the evidence that ID was an outgrowth of the creation science movement and that, for the vast majority of its proponents and supporters, it has a religious purpose, namely "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions." Unless and until the movement specifically repudiates that policy it will always be regarded as primarily religious rather than scientific.
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