Tuesday, October 11, 2005

The Questionable Authority dissects some moron's essay on why I.D. will win over evolution.

My favorite bit from the moron:

So you've discovered the missing link? Proven that viruses distribute super-complex DNA proteins? Shown that fractals can produce evolution-friendly three-dimensional shapes? It doesn't matter. To the ID mind, you're just pushing the question further down the road. How was the missing link designed? What is the origin of the viruses? Who designed the fractals? ID has already made its peace with natural selection and the irrefutable aspects of Darwinism. By contrast, Darwinism cannot accept even the slightest possibility that it has failed to explain any significant dimension of evolution. It must dogmatically insist that it will resolve all of its ambiguities and shortcomings -- even the ones that have lingered since the beginning of Darwinism. The entire edifice of Darwinian theory comes crashing down with even a single credible demonstration of design in any living thing. Can science really plug a finger into every hole in the Darwinian dyke for the next fifty years?


Which just proves the point that I.D. isn't science--it is magic: "Whatever we discover, that's exactly the way our Unspecified-Omnipotent-Being-Who-Isn't-God-Wink-Wink designed it!"

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