Intelligent design; pre-planning (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, November 13, 2011, 19:03 (4737 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Perhaps I have been too serious, presenting interesting new science. Note my next entry for pre-planning:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/60/95O56/index.xml?section=topstories

Duly noted with a gasp of disbelief. It seems that the authors have only just discovered that since evolution has led from simple to complex, there must be a mechanism that leads from simple to complex. It’s self-organizing and self-correcting, and they’ve named it “evolutionary control”, which makes it official. But get a load of this (and David, I’m surprised you didn’t batten onto it):

“The scientists do not know how the cellular machinery guiding this process may have originated, but they emphatically said it did not buttress the case for intelligent design...”

Scientists seem to believe that if they say something emphatically enough, everyone will believe them. Politicians have the same delusions. Why are these folk so terrified of open-mindedness?

David, several of the other sites you have drawn our attention to (including the one you want me to write a play about) require registration. This may be free and simple, but I have had bad experiences with such sites – once you’ve registered, they bombard you. It would be enormously helpful if you would briefly summarize any salient points.