..., and I wondered what some of you thought about this ladies assertions.
It is high on rhetoric, low on content.
Indeed, as sociologist Rodney Stark argues in To the Glory of God, modern science could have arisen only in a culture convinced that the universe is the creation of a rational mind--and is thus intelligible to our rational minds.
The Chinese seem to have come with a lot of science, but the philosophical assumptions were very different from those Stark suggests.
Third, ID will win because it incorporates the insights of the high-tech world of information theory.
ID has utterly failed in its attempt to incorporate information theory. About all that the ID folk have demonstrated, is their profound ignorance on the subject.
The public cannot help but notice that many ID proponents are well educated and credentialed.
Indeed. They are well educated and credentialed in areas such as law, philosophy, theology, rhetoric. But most are seriously ignorant in the sciences. They are expert in the art of bullshitting.
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