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...They now announce that Darwinian evolution is "on the defensive...
...Peterson's article uses adversarial rhetoric and several standard methods for defeating opponents...
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...ID is thus not an argument from ignorance, but is instead an"inference to the best explanation": accepting, at least provision-ally, the conclusion that best fits the known facts...
...The argument of "Intelligent Design," however, is that laws of nature are not good enough, e.g...
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...1. Peterson opens his article with the knockdown blow, the very complex bacterial flagellum that does not function if only one essential part is missing...
...But that is the very tack that Mr...
...6. The concept of life as information uses exponential arguments that it is just too improbable for life to be result of chance...
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...4. Then, God is brought into the argument, as the Intelligent Agent...
...Intelligent design," however, is not a point of view...
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...it is a hoax, perpetrated by fundamentalist Christians in an attempt to dilute or destroy the teaching of evolutionary science in our nation's public schools...
...We could spend millennia looking for a naturalistic explanation of the Rosetta Stone, but doing so would be perverse and pointless when the evidence indicates convincingly that it is a product of intelligence...
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...Or is the occurrence ofthis staggeringly complex information so overwhelmingly improbable, even given billions of years and trillions of trillions of tries, that purposeful design by an intelligence is the best scientific explanation...
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...Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent, American Lawyer Media $28 00 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Available at bookstores everywhere www.oup.comlus SEPTEMBER 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 7 C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Absent answers to these few simple questions, how may we accept "Intelligent Design" as a serious aspect of science...
...The point is that caricatures of ID proponents as scientifically unqualified Bible-thumpers are light years distant from reality...
...And, in fact, I specifically referenced two peer-reviewed articles in my piece (though without full citations—The American Spectator, as a popular journal, doesn't do endnotes...
...Frankly, I wouldn't be without it, and neither should you...
...5. Unnecessary unfathomable complex terms are used, for which no meaning is evident...
...Smith's letter to the contrary) is not to claim that their arguments should be accepted because they have Ph.Ds...
...Religious belief has fostered the rational investigation of creation, not prevented it...
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...no references cited to peer reviewed journal articles...
...If there is any such thing as philosophy of science, the coinage "Atheistic materialism" is a surd one rung down the ladder of inanity from "Jewish Physics" or "Mormon Archaeology...
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...The fact that your editors chose to include such nonsense in an otherwise intellectually reputable magazine makes me won-der now if other things I read in The American Spectator are as ludicrous as the article on "intelligent design...
...Another argument about DNA information can be cited as misleading...
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...But what he does not show is how complex specified information can actually be generated by necessary physical laws alone...
...Peterson says, "upon scientific methods and evidence...
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...All too complex...
...Consider attorney Dan Peterson's article, "The Little Engine That Could...
...His letter employs the neat tactic of trying to define science philosophically as permitting only materialist explanations, thereby automatically relegating any argument demonstrating design to the realm of "not science...
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...Any process that requires just two componentscannot operate in the absence of one or the other, unless substitute means are present (evolution...
...The question on the table is: What is the best explanation for the astonishing complexity of living organisms, and for the voluminous, highly specified information embedded in DNA that codes for the proteins of which living things are made...
...Department of Philosophy Los Angeles Valley College Van Nuys, California Like gout, scientism is a disease with many symptoms, afflicting all classes...
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...But the design explanation is what this debate is about, and the ID arguments cannot be defined away by ruling in advance that only one side of the debate can be heard...
...The Discovery Institute's website contains an an-notated bibliography of peer-reviewed articles and books by ID proponents...
...Can you devise an experiment that would falsify the concept...
...Arguments from design were always part of metaphysics...
...3. Another typical adversarial approach intended to overwhelm is multiple asseverations that a cadre of scientists is threatening Darwinian evolution with "IntellStephen Moore ant to thc President 16 Daniel .lohnson, the sainted Pope 26 1 Brian Weshun': faring inflation t0 Itor ey Alehr rates Stalin 60 I,nil I't leiwn tm the 1mihahilil, ~.( J,, dI yt m k.i;9, 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2005 C O R R E S P O N D E N C E igent Design...
...Ross's assertion that belief in design "would preclude scientific explanation altogether" is a red herring...
...I can-not refrain from noting that Mr...
...Serious scientists question every aspect of their thoughts...
...Smith finds room for irrelevancies, attempts at jocosi-ties, and mistakes of fact, but if ID is so easy to refute, why does he not address the arguments that were actually made...
...This is why most scientists, whether materialists or not, atheists or not, will not buy into "Intelligent Design...
...Spiritual or religious approaches observe the rhodora and ask whence...
...Some heretical Zoroastrians might aver that firing sand into bricks endows it with pneumatic knowledge of the Nature of Fire, but none adorn the board of the Discovery Institute—a lay order whose candidly religious manifesto is a matter of record...
...It distinguishes poorly between religion and science—revealed by his statement that "It threatens to allow religion to escape from the ghetto assigned to it by," apparently, the classic understanding of the scientific method—and, more importantly, between science and metaphysics...
...to the contrary, all mainstream scientific literature hoots at what is little more than Young Earth Creationism dressed up in a tuxedo...
...Period...
...Your editors would do well to review the very substantial scientific literature pointing out all of the flaws and absurdities proposed by the "intelligent design" crowd...
...In physics now, there are two completely different explanations of how the forces of nature work, that of Einstein, using geometry, and that of Quantum Mechanics, using virtual particles...
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...AMANDA WITT Port Orchard, Washington Thank you for the excellent over-view of the Darwin/ID situation...
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...I have seen no evidence that it does...
...It is "medieval," "nonsense," "ludicrous," and nothing but "Young Earth Creationism dressed up in a tuxedo...
...No one else comes up with the big stories, week after week...
...Intelligent Design" does not rely, as Mr...
...You will be amazed at what you will learn in each and every issue...
...And impressive as the names Penrose, Godel, and Wittgenstein may be, the relevance of their work to this debate is equally tenuous...
...Ross's own example of Newton is a case in point...
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...By such a ploy we also must be allowed to bring Satan into the picture, as "Intelligent Design" is surely the work of the Devil...
...They further show, both as matter of theory and observation, that when we en-counter "complex specified information," such as that which life exhibits, the best scientific inference is that it is designed by an intelligence rather than arising from undirected material causes...
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...LELAND L SMITH Austin, Texas I was astonished when I picked up your June 2005 issue to find that your editors have chosen to publish an article extolling the creationist nonsense known as "intelligent design...
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...There is only one civilization in the entire history of Earth in which science as a sustained, organized enterprise originated, and that is the civilization then known as Christendom...
...Physics envy may even present as Intelligent Designers imagining they can prove a case about biology using the science of the law...
...May we now anticipate an equally lengthy article supporting Darwinian evolution, to be taught in Sunday school classes...
...The greatest flaw in any theory of design as part of science is that it explains too much...
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...RUSSELL SEITZ Watertown, Massachusetts Thank you so much for publishing Dan Peterson's excellent article on Intelligent Design...
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...This is annoying, and everyone hopes it will get cleared up eventually, but it does not result in physicists 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2005 C O R R E S P O N D E N C E reverting to Isaac Newton's own explanation for the force of gravity: the Will of God...
...Among the several enigmatic terminologies given us are "irreducibly complex," "contingency, complexity, and specification," "complex specified information," "atheistic material-ism," and "universal probability bound...
...Alas, the four letters published here that are critical of ID all display a feature that is characteristic of such attacks: none even tries to refute the scientific arguments actually made by the ID theorists...
...Another well-worn line of attack is to impugn the standing of ID theorists or the scientific legitimacy of the books or periodicals in which their work appears...
...All we know for the three gurus is their books, books not subject to critical review by disinterested experts...
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...Science is perfectly happy going on, sometimes for decades, with-out explanations at all...
...Where is one science journal article, peer reviewed, that offers any experimental evidence for or against "Intelligent Design...
...Drawing a favorable orwinning hand is improbable, as the odds are against it...
...So I must differ with his conclusion that scientists will not buy into ID, "whether materialists or not, atheists or not...
...Moreover, other than delivery of a knockdown blow at the very start, why begin with a complex matter...
...They presume to seek evidence on the matter, by observation, and by experimentation...
...As the article notes (pages 36, 41, and 42), and as actually reading their work con-firms, the ID theorists argue from the same accepted timetable for creation of the universe and life on Earth as do other scientists...
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...Watson's letter calls ID "a hoax, perpetrated by fundamentalist Christians...
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...Next—and I say this with a certain disappointment—is name-calling...
...I describe in my article the superb educational credentials and distinguished accomplishments of several of the principal ID advocates...
...The same argument applies to the standard blood-clotting cascade...
...What maybe useful is an analysis of Peterson's article to examine whether it has any science in it...
...In his lengthy letter, Leland Smith avers that "Neither a detailed refutation of Peterson's many points nor a defense of evolution is necessary...
...This being a material world, it is unremarkable that Marxists or Manicheans should want in on the action, but their desire is simply beside the point-prefixing `materialism' to the belief system du jour does not make the doctrinal annexation material...
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...it must be by "Intelligent Design...
...degrees...
...Ross, that "the lack of a naturalistic explanation does not prove that there isn't one...
...Newton was not only a pro-found Christian believer but—most would admit—a pretty fair scientist as well...
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...For other topics of real science, experiments are designed and conducted, results described, and interpretations provided...
...Scientists usually have a Curriculum Vitae that lists their published science journal articles...
...So we must ask what does "Intelligent Design" offer us...
...It is to school science classes where the concept of evolution must not be taught, or must be taught with "Intelligent Design" equally prominent...
...continued next page...
...The True Believer says there is no need to test the concept, as Darwinian evolution has failed to explain everything definitively to satisfaction...
...Prior definition of value...
...It was a joy to read a clear, correct description of the ID position...
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...There is no point to bringing such complexity into the argument, save to overwhelm, to bamboozle the unaware...
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...Watson's "creationism in a tuxedo" sally was lifted from page 36 of my article, where it was quoted as an example of groundless at-tempts to stigmatize ID and its supporters...
...There is none...
...The point of doing so (Mr...
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...I found his preface deeply and egregiously tautological, yet went on to read the remainder forlornly hoping it might transcend Rev...
...One that seems indisposed to reflect that the proper subject of materialism is matter, not metaphysics...
...Another means of avoiding the real debate is exemplified by the letter from Prof...
...The lack of a naturalistic explanation does not prove there isn't one, nor does the argument that we cannot imagine how naturalistic causes would have worked...
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...He claims that the ID theorists' "books are 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2005 CORRESPONDENCE not subject to critical review by disinterested experts," and that in my piece there are "no references cited to peer-reviewed journal articles...
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...Paley or Cardinal de Broglie in actually evidencing inquiry into the emergence of material complexity from mathematical structure...
...Golly, how complex it all is...
...JERRY DOYLE Sheboygan, Wisconsin Dan Peterson replies: My thanks to all who wrote to The American Spectator commenting on my article, whether they are sympathetic to Intelligent Design or oppose it...
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...The ID proponents have marshaled powerful biological and mathematical demonstrations that the Darwinian mechanism is not up to the job...
...To the extent there is any intellectual content to respond to here, it is worth observing that the "Young Earth Creationism" re-mark is a canard...
...Blind necessity produces repeating patterns, or random ones...
...Citing Newton as an example of how acceptance of design impedes scientific discovery can only be an attempt at dry professorial humor...
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...Instead, they employ several tactics that are often used to try to discredit ID without coming to grips with the science...
...Science began by looking for naturalistic explanations...
...Likewise, I enjoy reading the New Republic, which also has a decided point of view, although one which I do not as often agree with...
...We are overwhelmed at the complexity of the argument...
...Undo Darwinism") as an alter-native to Darwinian evolution in our school science classes poses the usual items now expected from such aggressive advocates...
...Since Law like religion depends on written precedent, not experiment, it tends to confuse words and things...
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...Yet not being a lawyer, I have no idea whether theories of justice need a metaphysical basis...
...Neither a detailed refutation of Peterson's many points nor a defense of evolution is necessary...
...Frankly, we were honored when Bob's publisher agreed to make it available to you as a subscriber to The American Spectator...
...Peterson what it means to most scientists—a study of the laws of nature by way of observation, theory, prediction, and experiment...
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...as a matter of principle blind necessity—that is, the laws of nature—cannot produce design of the kind life exhibits...
...what evidence is there not in support, evidence that contradicts or denies, that falsifies the concept...
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...Peterson thinks molecular biology should...
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...Then Peterson says, "If intelligent design makes good its claims, it might change the definition of science...
...Other than emotional disputation, what new science information has emerged...
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...If you unquestioningly share Peterson's premises you are bound to applaud his conclusions, but his mode of discourse, apologetics, is continued on page 12 Always Be Right HOLLYWOOD NATION 'yll,.vt co", t:~ eJ h James ti Iirsen . wnh...
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