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Seeing Design8/19/2005 12:47:59This week my focus in the current book project is a look at intelligent design theory and its underpinnings. I am fascinated both by their content and their power. Just today in the Washington Post is an article about a biologist whose marriage and career were ruined because he accepted an article by the ubiquitous Discovery Instiutute design activist Stephen Meyer. Essentially, the fellow was dragged through the National Mall by a raving horde of National History Museum scientists who fear for their institutional credibility. Though ultimately their claims seem unstable to my eye, I have had a great deal of fun reading people like Behe and especially Dembski, who have concocted wonderous proofs in the proper language of scientific talk (at least to my layman's ear) reaching conclusions that seem to unsettle the methodology of science. What strikes me as so beautiful is the ambition of this, perhaps its futility as well---though politically there seems to be a great deal of success. It leaves me in awe and wondering what drives people to this and who are they and what do they believe is truth? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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