http://blog.firstimportance.com/archives/23 Ruminatin' 'til the cows come home. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:15:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blog.firstimportance.com/archives/23#comment-9 Jeremy’s Stuff and Things » Blog Archive » Stuck on Stupid: Critics of Intelligent Design Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:00:38 +0000 http://blog.firstimportance.com/archives/23#comment-9 [...] Folks seem to be stuck on the Scopes Monkey Trial, and the picture of science vs. anti-intellectual creationism is being painted with very broad strokes. Jonathan Witt of the Discovery Institute has written an excellent article to refute the erroneous assumptions made in the media and elsewhere. Critics of the theory of intelligent design often assert that it is simply a repackaged version of creationism, and that it began after the Supreme Court struck down the teaching of creationism in Edwards v. Aguillard in 1987. In reality, the idea of intelligent design reaches back to Socrates and Plato, and the term “intelligent design” as an alternative to blind evolution was used as early as 1897. More recently, discoveries in physics, astronomy, information theory, biochemistry, genetics, and related disciplines during the past several decades provided the impetus for scientists and philosophers of science to develop modern design theory. Many of the central ideas for the theory of intelligent design were already being articulated by scientists and philosophers of science by the early 1980s, well before the Edwards v. Aguillard decision. [...] […] Folks seem to be stuck on the Scopes Monkey Trial, and the picture of science vs. anti-intellectual creationism is being painted with very broad strokes. Jonathan Witt of the Discovery Institute has written an excellent article to refute the erroneous assumptions made in the media and elsewhere. Critics of the theory of intelligent design often assert that it is simply a repackaged version of creationism, and that it began after the Supreme Court struck down the teaching of creationism in Edwards v. Aguillard in 1987. In reality, the idea of intelligent design reaches back to Socrates and Plato, and the term “intelligent design” as an alternative to blind evolution was used as early as 1897. More recently, discoveries in physics, astronomy, information theory, biochemistry, genetics, and related disciplines during the past several decades provided the impetus for scientists and philosophers of science to develop modern design theory. Many of the central ideas for the theory of intelligent design were already being articulated by scientists and philosophers of science by the early 1980s, well before the Edwards v. Aguillard decision. […]

]]> http://blog.firstimportance.com/archives/23#comment-3 Luis Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:19:28 +0000 http://blog.firstimportance.com/archives/23#comment-3 That was too funny....keep 'em coming Jer That was too funny….keep ‘em coming Jer

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