tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post113517353389695262..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1135612657200582522005-12-26T10:57:00.000-05:002005-12-26T10:57:00.000-05:00Ever notice how snotty and irrational people get w...Ever notice how snotty and irrational people get when you try to discuss this subject dispassionately?Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1135357440379469872005-12-23T12:04:00.000-05:002005-12-23T12:04:00.000-05:00Demarcation criterion? Please.Define science howev...Demarcation criterion? Please.<BR/><BR/>Define science however you like -- the point is that the ID people are not doing it. <BR/><BR/>Instead of creating experiments to test their hypotheses, performing actual research, or writing articles for respected science journals, they are trying to wedge their "theory" directly into the high school curriculum WITHOUT first getting it accepted by the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1135293378643232462005-12-22T18:16:00.000-05:002005-12-22T18:16:00.000-05:00Jones spent lots and lots of pages demonstrating t...Jones spent lots and lots of pages demonstrating that ID is specifically Christian. It seemed to me that this was the basis of his decision.<BR/><BR/>If ID is, according to an objective observer, a nonsectarian scientific theory, then it is permissible in the classroom; if not, then not. And he amply demonstrated that ID is a) derived from Christian theology; and b) advocated by Christians for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1135263103509695442005-12-22T09:51:00.000-05:002005-12-22T09:51:00.000-05:00From a legal standpoint, the relevant demarcation ...From a legal standpoint, the relevant demarcation issue is not whether ID is science, but rather whether ID is religion. On that issue, Judge Jones' reasoning fares rather well. <BR/><BR/>If a person's only motivation for testing hypotheses through carefully designed experimental protocol and submitting results to peers for critical review is to earn personal prestige, but a necessary and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-1135174875373574792005-12-21T09:21:00.000-05:002005-12-21T09:21:00.000-05:00I agree with his decision, based on the idea that ...I agree with his decision, based on the idea that things that rely on the supernatural shouldn't be taught as science. Most science teachers already say "We don't know how the cell originated; no experiment has been able to replicate that bad-ass act of abiogenesis." They don't need to also say "Some theorists postulate that it was done by magic, by an unknown superpowerful being."Orlando C. Harnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02256544298448586167noreply@blogger.com