tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8483622.post112327752248245698..comments2024-02-29T20:00:59.902-08:00Comments on Cartago Delenda Est: The Little Engine That CouldMatteohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05393908406875742989noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8483622.post-1123516957452824262005-08-08T09:02:00.000-07:002005-08-08T09:02:00.000-07:00That author appears to totally misunderstand how s...That author appears to totally misunderstand how science works. Scientists do not "defend, at all costs" their current beliefs; they welcome a challenge, but ask only for observable evidence! They reject claims of the form "it must be because X because we do not understand how it could be Y" and of the form "it must be because X since authority Y says so."<BR/><BR/>Intelligent design makes no testable hypothesis. If it proposed a particular intelligent designer, it might make some headway as being science, but it would be more likely to reveal itself as a sham front for fundamentalist thought-control religous activism. The abstract claim that there must be some designer is simply not science.<BR/><BR/>That is not to mention that a number of credible scientists believe both that the mechanism of evolution produced the diversity in Earth's life and that a deity guided that evolution. The opening paragraph falsely conflates the scientific idea of evolution with religious beliefs.<BR/><BR/>However, this will not likely matter: When a majority of Americans reportedly believe literally in Biblical accounts of the Garden of Eden, of Noah's Ark, and of Methuselah, there is little hope in ever educating them about rational thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com