Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Something to read with your coffee...

Richard Dawkins has posted a relatively new article that he co-wrote with Jerry Coyne. I strongly suggest that you check it out.

The premise of the article is to articulate an educational problem, an educational issue and an educational void. I will not go into it, as work beckons, but I hope you take the time to enjoy it and to ponder its meanings.

Here is a quote that I feel enunciates the issue well:
Intelligent design is not an argument of the same character as these controversies. It is not a scientific argument at all, but a religious one. It might be worth discussing in a class on the history of ideas, in a philosophy class on popular logical fallacies, or in a comparative religion class on origin myths from around the world. But it no more belongs in a biology class than alchemy belongs in a chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class. In those cases, the demand for equal time for "both theories" would be ludicrous. Similarly, in a class on 20th-century European history, who would demand equal time for the theory that the Holocaust never happened?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

y r scintists so afrad of even discusing other theorys? they clam to b open minded, than refuce to addmit that other theorys have meret??!!

You don't need to replace God's love with alcohol anymore, Trevor. He loves you, even though you're fat.

Anonymous said...

Since we are attackng the person and not the idea at this point, I would like to quote a post from another blog to end our communication:

"All in all, what do you expect from a pig but a grunt."

Keep grunting....keep espousing relentless cyclic points...keep quoting one single source (speaking of single theory acceptance)...keep hating. Keep it up, since that seems to keep you going.

I would have expected a higher morality and ethical love for others from such a vivacious god lover. But the godly have let us down with their blindness before.

And this, my texan friend, is the last communication we will have. I will not lower my intellectual integrity any more to communicate with you.
god(less) bless you.

Anonymous said...

Not quite Texas. Look a little farther north: http://tinyurl.com/2gjnwx

Anonymous said...

Oh, its you.....in that case, I undersand the idiocy of your comments. You just dont understand stuf yet. Wait till your older. It will come...

However, I did manage to track down a godssoldier in Texas...kept me busy for a while.
He actually writes like you. Weird.

So, im officially turning this blog into a.... wati for it.....a ..... wait for it..... wait for it......wait for it........raisin blog.

All about raisins.



PS - you have far too much spare time...get a hobby :)