tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8483622.post113347309895229224..comments2024-02-29T20:00:59.902-08:00Comments on Cartago Delenda Est: A Muslim On IDMatteohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05393908406875742989noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8483622.post-1133478518635148932005-12-01T15:08:00.000-08:002005-12-01T15:08:00.000-08:00Congratulations: It is now official that monotheis...Congratulations: It is now official that monotheistic fundamentalists of all stripes prefer Intelligent Design. Perhaps al Qaeda and Hamas can raise money by selling translations of Dembski and Behe into Arabic.<BR/><BR/>When you quote a work that argues at such length against a strawman (that people oppose ID because it is specifically a Christian superstition), do you expect any rational person to take it seriously?<BR/><BR/>The fundamental distinction between evolution and ID is this: Evolution believes we can observe (today) any mechanisms of genetic change that are necessary for life's current diversity to arise, in its hypothesized time scales, from primitive single cells. ID claims that this is impossible.<BR/><BR/>What Akyol is really arguing against, by demanding the rejection of using repeatable observation to deduce facts, is not just evolution but science as a whole. It is a sad comment on the modern state of fundamentalists of both Islam and Christianity that they prefer this.<BR/><BR/>If there is a god in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic mold, I hope it sets aside a special punishment for people who demean its creation by demanding that the deity's world needs constant tweaking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com