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May 07, 2005
The Purist Form Marketing
When there is nothing to sell but a lie.
PvM writing on Panda's Thumb directs our attention to "The Bait and Switch of 'Intelligent Design'", by Keith Lockitch, Ph.D. and junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California. Lockitch concludes,
No matter how fervently its salesmen wish "intelligent design" to be viewed as cutting-edge science, there is no disguising its true character. It is nothing more than a religiously motivated attack on science, and should be rejected as such.
"Salesmen" is exactly the correct work. Intelligent Design Creationism is nothing more than a marketing ploy in the very worst connotation of the expression. It seeks to sell one thing in the name of another.
Lockitch sees through the whole thing with great clarity,
Its advertising to the contrary notwithstanding, "intelligent design" is inherently a quest for the supernatural. Only one "candidate for the role of designer" need apply. Dembski himself--even while trying to deny this implication--concedes that "if there is design in biology and cosmology, then that design could not be the work of an evolved intelligence." It must, he admits, be that of a "transcendent intelligence" to whom he euphemistically refers as "the big G." [emphasis added]
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This might be a little off topic, but if the Noah's arc story is true, how come we are all not completely inbreed (since there were eight people left on the planet)?
Posted by: Yaoi Huntress Earth at May 8, 2005 08:08 PM
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