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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Jason Spaceman" |
| Date: |
03 Jul 2005 07:24:23 AM |
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Dawkins: Creationism's blind eye |
From the article:
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Richard Dawkins
is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford
University
Science feeds on mystery. As my colleague Matt Ridley has put it, "Most
scientists are bored by what they have already discovered. It is ignorance that
drives them on." Science mines ignorance. Mystery - that which we don't yet
know; that which we don't yet understand - is the mother lode that scientists
seek out.
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in
mystery for a very different reason: It gives them something to do. Maybe we
don't understand yet, but we're working on it. Each mystery solved opens up
vistas of unsolved problems, and the scientist eagerly moves in.
Admissions of ignorance and mystification are vital to good science. It is
therefore galling, to say the least, when enemies of science turn those
constructive admissions around and abuse them for political advantage. It is
worse than galling. It threatens the enterprise of science itself. This is
exactly the effect creationism or "intelligent design theory" (I.D.) is having,
especially because its propagandists are slick, superficially plausible and,
above all, well-financed. I.D., by the way, is not a new form of creationism.
It simply is creationism disguised, for political reasons, under a new name.
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Read it at
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/sunday_review/12042633.htm
or http://tinyurl.com/exzzq
(get a username & password at
http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com)
J. Spaceman
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| User: "VoiceOfReason" |
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| Title: Re: Dawkins: Creationism's blind eye |
03 Jul 2005 08:05:52 AM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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Richard Dawkins
<snip>
I.D., by the way, is not a new form of creationism.
It simply is creationism disguised, for political reasons, under a new name.
We can thank the inept school boards for making this perfectly clear to
everyone. At least now IDiots can't hide their real agenda.
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