Sincerely,
Charles Peirce.

In fact, when they pinned Richard Dawkins against the wall in Expelled and asked him to explain how the alien explanation would even be possible, he came up with a plausible mechanism. They then took that out of context and screamed “Richard Dawkins thinks aliens intelligently designed humans!”

I don’t know anyone in the ID camp who believes the alien option anyway.

David Icke? I don’t know much about his theories but they seemed to involve all life on earth being created by alien dragons from another universe. Makes as much sense to me as any other ID theory.

As a Jewish woman, it’s especially painful to me when I see a Jew (judging by her name, at least) standing up *against* science. It’s somehow worse when it’s one of us, and I rarely hear of it happening. In fact, Ben Stein was the first I’d heard of!

Sarah, it bothers me as well. It bothers me enough when Jews accept money and political favors from evangelicals on behalf of Israel, but when they get into bed with creationists, it makes me crazy. There exists a handful of Jews – Stein, Klinghoffer, Berlinksi, Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his lap dog, Michal Medved, a few others – who’ve become vocal advocates for creationism. I can’t understand why they do it; I have to assume that (in addition to neuron death) it’s an ego issue, being a big fish in a little pond. It may have to do with money as well; supposedly, Berlinksi has said that as long as the Discovery Institute keeps writing him checks, he’ll keep cashing them. In any case, I agree with you – it’s inexcusable.

Who cares, really, about what people think is right or wrong? What they think is clever or will agree to? In the end, it is all noise. Even my observation, but, at least, I am at ease.

Evolution is a theory, as is posited, so it is not truth. If it is not truth, it cannot be used as a standard. QED

Intelligent design is a notion that the theory doesn’t conflict with that of a prime mover. So?

People would like to follow evolution but do not want to abandon the notion that there was a first mover of some sort. That’s nice.

Has nothing to do with being a Darwinist, a very religious man, by the way. They feel that way because there really is intelligence in our design. How it got there is another story.

To devolve into an arrogant rage over someone’s love for a deity is hardly scientific, nor is that love an assault on science, which, after all, really presents us with any real “facts.” This is Einstein talking, now me.

Perhaps, Descartes’ “cogito ergo sum” is correct; if not, we “know” nothing and we all operate in a metaphysical sphere. One from which we judge others as stupid or mad.

The current religion of evolution is hysterical about the notion of an intelligent design because their religion is that of man’s thoughts, which can truck no other god before them. It is similar to the absence of logic when considering the precept of global warming, or is it climate change, or today’s weather.

Throw out some numbers and quote a few experts and, presto, the new religion is set, even if the you have no idea what the experts say. Once that is done, those who are not so sure about your religion are stupid because, well, everyone knows….

History goes round and round and those in the game believe what they believe. If you can’t doubt your own perspective, then you cannot cannot honestly hide behind science.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.