tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post112890487873618266..comments2023-10-03T19:47:34.084+11:00Comments on Dialectic: St James Ethics Centre PollEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986439579966977930noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1129785668431246352005-10-20T15:21:00.000+10:002005-10-20T15:21:00.000+10:00Since I can't work out how to edit my comment, you...Since I can't work out how to edit my comment, you will just have to suspend disbelief and pretend that I actually wrote "Feyerabend", rather than "Feyeranbend".Samuel Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12348284792143801649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1129138634445904472005-10-13T03:37:00.000+10:002005-10-13T03:37:00.000+10:00I doubt if the "science" of Intelligent Design can...I doubt if the "science" of Intelligent Design can be said meaningfully to extend even to a statement of the type "Does the world show an intelligent design?"<BR/><BR/>Someone would have to come up with a criterion distinguishing between "the world as we are able to understand it" and "the world as it is." Good luck with that. The former is going to be ID by definition, since ID is by definition Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1129071863274395832005-10-12T09:04:00.000+10:002005-10-12T09:04:00.000+10:00For example, would teachers acknowledge the limita...For example, would teachers acknowledge the limitations of this argument? Any flaws within the ID argument aside (and there are plenty) it is a very big step, an leap of un-reason even, from: <BR/><BR/>1. "There is an Intelligent Designer" <BR/>to <BR/>2. "There is an Intelligent Designer and they are God(Our God, not yours)" <BR/><BR/>Number 2 is how some people would like to, and already do Samuel Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12348284792143801649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1129070328912872552005-10-12T08:38:00.000+10:002005-10-12T08:38:00.000+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Samuel Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12348284792143801649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1129068921471465172005-10-12T08:15:00.000+10:002005-10-12T08:15:00.000+10:00The 'alongside' issue is an important one, as how ...The 'alongside' issue is an important one, as how this is treated is indicative of what is the goal of introducing this theory into schools. <BR/><BR/>Most people would assume that I'm againt the teaching of ID in schools. But that is not completely true. I am very much for encouraging philosophical thought in younger people. If the move to teach Intelligent Design was structured to that end, I Samuel Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12348284792143801649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10098115.post-1128905281955225752005-10-10T10:48:00.000+10:002005-10-10T10:48:00.000+10:00The first issue that needs to be settled is what c...The first issue that needs to be settled is what constitutes 'alongside'. Yeah this is pedantic hair splitting, but it is important. If 'alongside' constitutes teach ID theory in science alongside evolution, then it is a different problem to 'alongside' where (drawing from my experience) there was a period when I had a period on evolution (in Science) and then had a period on creation myths, MHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09068975650320612418noreply@blogger.com