I find it somewhat curious that some of the biggest players in the US government foisting Intelligent Design on the nation's children... as a "new way of doing science"... are the same ones that sent us to war with Iraq over their weapons of mass destruction.
This could get very lengthy, so I am going to skip details right now. But think about this carefully.
A major part of the ID movement is to criticize materialist thinking as less than empirical, because evos accept gaps in the fossil record. Their entire claim is that nothing can be said about ANYTHING if there is no concrete physical proof that can be seen by all.
Yet where was the evidence for WMDs. Clearly there was none before the conflict, at least nothing close to the level of evidence suggesting continued parent-child relationships during fossil gaps.
And there is still no credible evidence forthcoming after the war. Bush has now suggested that it might be possible there will never be any WMDs found at all.
So the guy who helped advance "true empirical science" by forcing the tenets of ID theory on our children, now wants us to WHOLLY REJECT those very tenets and believe that gaps in a record DOES NOT mean a theory should be rejected.
I hope someone calls him on this double-game he is playing.
Someone let me know if I've missed how the "new empiricism" of Dembski and the ID movement, can now accept gaps in knowledge.
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