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:: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 ::
Making Stupid People Dumber
Dave Neiwert has a post on the Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes "Intelligent Design," the half-baked fundamentalist alternative to evolution and other hard science.
CLARIFICATION: the "half-baked" refers to the idea of putting Intelligent Design into science class, where it has no basis, as opposed to social studies (or, in college, philosophy) where it can be talked about objectively.
Also, the watchmaker theory doesn't hold for multicellular organisms - there's a definite progression of complexity as shown by the fossil record. Now, if you want to go and make a functional eukaryotic cell, be my guest - those things don't work without a bazillion parts, all interdependent on each other. A watch has nothing on a yeast cell. Then again, Craig Venter, the dude that brought you the Human genome four years earlier than planned, is apparently trying create an entirely synthetic cell, so I may soon have to look elsewhere for an example of "impossible" biological complexity.
:: The Squire 1:23 AM :: email this post :: ::
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