{"id":371498,"date":"2018-07-31T01:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-on-evolution-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T01:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:25:43","slug":"more-on-evolution-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-on-evolution-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Evolution – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently I wrote a\u00a0column<\/a>\u00a0about the theory of Intelligent Design, which holds that that life, both in its origins and its changes over time, are the result of design instead of chance. Several hundred comments and emails arrived, more than I could read. This was not surprising as there seems to be considerable public interest in the question, while a virulent political correctness prevents discussion in most forums. In particular the major media prevent mention of Intelligent Design except in derogatory terms.<\/p>\n

Interesting to me at any rate was that the tone of response was much more civil and thoughtful than it was say, a decade ago.<\/p>\n

A fair few respondents\u00a0<\/b>quoted the Bible. \u00a0I wondered why the Bible and not the Koran or Bhagavad Gita. The Bible seems to me the chaotic literature of a barbaric tribe and characterized by morally unpleasant stories. Why it is thought to have any relevance to abiogenesis is not clear to me.<\/p>\n

Some readers,\u00a0<\/b>quoting Carl Sagan, said approximately, \u201cFred, an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence to support it.\u201d I don\u2019t disagree. The claim that ocean water will in time produce Manhattan seems to me sufficiently extraordinary to require extraordinary evidence. So far, there is none. Evolutionists have not shown that sea water can produce any life at all, much less the New York Philharmonic.
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Other readers i<\/b>nsist that Intelligent Design is not scientific. If not, so what? The question should be not whether it is scientific but whether it is true. What an ideological group calling themselves scientists believe is not a valid test of truth. When I was in the eighth grade, I watched…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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