Intelligent Thought
Daniel C. Dennett already wrote his thoughts down about the stupidities in ‘Intelligent Design’. And now Edge has come up with a special edition on this subject, featuring Richard Dawkins and John Allen Paulos among others.
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?
[x]#1411 fan zondag 11 september 2005 @ 14:17:59
