Philosophy
The question...
Recent efforts by some groups have attempted to mask "creationism" as "intelligent design" to counter "evolution". Do you support the introduction of the "intelligent design" position in the debate between "creationism" and "evolution"?
Yes=2 [15%]
No=10 [76%]
Neutral=2 [15%]
It looks like 76% consider "intelligent design" to be a cover for "creationism" and not considered as a legitimate candidate for the "evolution/creationism" debate. Frankly, I stay away from the debate here...it is too complex and the arguments presented wouldn't change the positions held. I would only add that the positions need not be mutually exclusive but "intelligent design" arguments should be recognized for what they are..."creationism".
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Philosophy
Use of "Intelligent Design" poll
The question...
Recent efforts by some groups have attempted to mask "creationism" as "intelligent design" to counter "evolution". Do you support the introduction of the "intelligent design" position in the debate between "creationism" and "evolution"?
Yes=2 [15%]
No=10 [76%]
Neutral=2 [15%]
It looks like 76% consider "intelligent design" to be a cover for "creationism" and not considered as a legitimate candidate for the "evolution/creationism" debate. Frankly, I stay away from the debate here...it is too complex and the arguments presented wouldn't change the positions held. I would only add that the positions need not be mutually exclusive but "intelligent design" arguments should be recognized for what they are..."creationism".
- Intelligent Design Provocation: How To Respond?
So a Christian group on campus sponsored a showing of Ben Stein's pro-Intelligent Design polemic "No Intelligence Allowed" and sent around an e-mail asking for faculty or student group presence at the film and for a round-table afterward. The claim,...
- Demarcation, Falsification, And Intelligent Design
Janet, over at Adventures in Ethics and Science, has a nice discussion going about intelligent design, the line between science and pseudoscience, and Karl Popper's criterion of falsificationism. According to Popper, a theory is scientific if and...
- Catfish And Creationism
It was reported in the New York Times today that scientists in the arctic found a fossil of a 375 million year-old fish able to walk on limbs. It is being cited as a possible connection between ancient sea dwelling animals and tetrapods, the earliest...
- Ricky Gervais, Jon Stewart And Panda Porn
When it comes to the debate between intelligent design creationism and evolution, the late Stephen J. Gould thought that instead of focusing on the marvels of biology, such as the eye, we should focus on the instances of poor biological architecture....
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The winner of this year’s $1.5 million Templeton Prize is NAS member Francisco Ayala, a biologist, evolutionary geneticist, and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. Ayala is best-known for developing highly accurate ways to measure...