Religions > Atheism > UK columnist Christopher Booker batting for 'ID' (WARNING: *INCLUDES LIES*...)
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07 Aug 2005 03:27:48 PM |
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UK columnist Christopher Booker batting for 'ID' (WARNING: *INCLUDES LIES*...) |
From:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/07/nbook07.xml
Talking with dinosaurs
It does not take long these days to spot one of that ever-lengthening list
of issues on which the BBC has a clear "agenda", which dictates just what
can and can't be said on its airwaves. Just as, a few years ago, the BBC was
quite shameless in propagandising for Britain to join the euro, one could
not now miss, for instance, that it is implacably opposed to President Bush
and the Iraq war, and equally in favour of the wind turbine racket as an
answer to global warming.
Another recent addition to the BBC's hate list is "intelligent design", the
movement gathering way among many respected scientists in the US and
elsewhere who have become profoundly sceptical about the adequacy of
Darwinian natural selection to explain the complexities of evolution. Not
for the first time, this was again prominently featured on last Monday's
Today programme. And as usual when Today has an agenda, the subject was
presented in such a crudely distorted way as to be laughable.
On the side of the Darwinians were the BBC's science correspondent, the
Today presenter and Sir David Attenborough, all of whom went out of their
way to ignore the fact that the proponents of "intelligent design" are
scientists, some very eminent, such as Professor Dean Kenyon who, 30 years
ago, was the father of the "chemical evolution" theory for the origins of
life.
Despite the best efforts of Dr Steven Meyer, an American scientist who was
the lone voice arguing for "intelligent design", the BBC trio tried to
present it as no more than a cause for religious nutters, an "upgrade" of
creationism. Sir David Attenborough clearly had not the slightest idea of
what the "intelligent design" thesis is about.
He insisted that "science looks at the facts" and that "We must stick with
scientific logic": oblivious to the fact that intelligent design is argued
by expert scientists who have come to their conclusions precisely because
they are following those principles.
Twenty years ago, in his series Life On Earth, Sir David himself sought to
demonstrate the miracle of Darwinian natural selection by showing how an
earthbound shrew evolved into a bat, by growing membranes on its feet which
developed into wings. But this was the worst possible example for him to
pick. From the moment that membrane began to develop, until it became a
proper wing, the creature would have been markedly less fitted to survive
rather than more.
It is fascinating to see how the Darwinians have now put themselves in the
same position as the Christian creationists they so despise. They rest their
case on nothing more than blind faith and unexamined a priori assumptions,
fanatically intolerant of anyone who dares question their beliefs.
How apt that they should now be supported by that latest home of lost
causes, the BBC. And how the BBC might have felt confirmed in its
self-righteousness when, later that same day, President Bush himself said he
could see no objection to Darwinian orthodoxy being subjected to scientific
questioning in the American education system. Of course such a thing should
be banned by law.
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Katt
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: UK columnist Christopher Booker batting for 'ID' (WARNING: *INCLUDES LIES*...) |
08 Aug 2005 01:58:07 PM |
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"Katt" <katt@office.commm> wrote in
news:89uJe.3428$jq6.2276@newsfe2-win.ntli.net:
From:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/07/nbook07
.xml
Talking with dinosaurs
It does not take long these days to spot one of that ever-lengthening
list of issues on which the BBC has a clear "agenda", which dictates
just what can and can't be said on its airwaves. Just as, a few years
ago, the BBC was quite shameless in propagandising for Britain to join
the euro, one could not now miss, for instance, that it is implacably
opposed to President Bush and the Iraq war,
Well, that's a pile of bollocks for a start. The BBC has support the
Iraq debacle from the start !
Remaining pathetic drivel deleted.
--
Jez, MBA.,
Country Dancing and Advanced Astrology, UBS.
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'- Howard Zinn
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