Evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, May 22, 2009, 00:05 (5663 days ago) @ George Jelliss

I don't really understand why the IDers prefer Shapiro's litle molecules approach to the origin of life to the RNA-world long molecule theory. Whichever turns out eventually to be true, they can still claim that it was all designed. - I pick and choose among the ID theories which I think is most reasonable from a scientific standpoint. I am a skeptic and so is Robert Shapiro. His book from 1986 (that's 23 years ago), "Origins: A Skeptic's guide to the Creation of Life in Earth is a masterpiece of clear critical thinking from a biochemist's viewpoint. He tears apart every theory present at that time, and continues to do so today. That sort of fits the ID viewpoint, which is to be skeptical of any Darwinian based theory. Remember, they think an unnamed agent started and guided all of this. Some of the more fundementalist IDer's are out and out creationists, Biblical style, and do not accept evolution. As I have previously noted, Michael Behe accepts evolution.