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| ngc1514 | May 15 2009, 10:29 AM Post #1 |
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So much of modern (if I should use that word) creationism is based on arguments from ignorance - we can't imagine how the eye was formed (or flagella or the clotting cascade), it must have been an act by an intelligent designer. I have noticed a slackening of support for ID and irreducible complexity since Behe got his ass whupped bad in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area Schools. He ended up looking like a total schlub and seems to have taken a back seat over the last couple years. Even the best intentioned argument from ignorance can oft go astray. Once of the most famous was by French philosopher Auguste Compte in 1835. In his Cours de la Philosophie Positive he wrote:
From http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr121/comte.html
And the lesson for the creationists is that the gaps they keep cramming god into get smaller and smaller and smaller and the concept of god keeps shrinking with those ever smaller gaps. Keep it up and poof... he's just gonna disappear. Edited by ngc1514, May 15 2009, 10:30 AM.
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