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fredag 29 januari 2010
Uppdaterat litteraturlistan med Darwin and Intelligent Design av Francisco J. Ayala.
In this short but illuminating piece, world-renowned biologist Francisco Ayala addresses the notion of intelligent design - the notion that individual species are too complex to have developed through evolution and therefore must be the work of an intelligent designer, God. Ayala shows first just what the theory of evolution claims, and the range of questions it can answer. He then turns to the notion of intelligent design, as it is expounded today, and its weaknesses as a scientific or even a theological explanation of the complexity of the universe and all its creatures. Fully affirmative of religious conviction, Ayala's treatment is especially valuable for its clarity about the respective roles of science, faith, and theology and the questions they pose.
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[ID] is not a scientific argument at all, but a religious one. It might be worth discussing in a class on the history of ideas, in a philosophy class on popular logical fallacies, or in a comparative religion class on origin myths from around the world. But it no more belongs in a biology class than alchemy belongs in a chemistry class, phlogiston in a physics class or the stork theory in a sex education class. In those cases, the demand for equal time for 'both theories' would be ludicrous. Similarly, in a class on 20th-century European history, who would demand equal time for the theory that the Holocaust never happened?Richard Dawkins
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