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To: Lane3 who wrote (92584)12/28/2004 1:58:56 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 793781
 
Hello Karen... long time no see. Since ionesco asked me about this, I figured I'll add my own thoughts. Self-assembly is something I'm totally fascinated with. I've done all sorts of desktop experiments along the lines of Hans Jenny. With the proper agitation, it appears that many inert systems come to life or, organize themselves into standing and persistent phenomena - it only requires a source of energy. However, a brief mention of Cymatics is not what is being proposed by most ID hopefuls.

My experience has shown that this is a hook that allows one set of dogmatic teachings or another to become entrained into the mainstream curriculum. If the proponents of ID were honest, they'd say this. If self-organization is in the fabric of the Universe, which I believe it is, then it may be as unnecessary to discuss ID by itself when teaching evolutionary biology as it is to discuss the awareness of electrons when teaching physics. I haven't seen a compelling argument to show that electrons don't have thoughts, but this is a lot like the missing WMD evidence argument.

With weak thinking, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and while logically true in its construction, such an approach is wholly non-scientific and doesn't allow people to discard incredible theories in favor of more credible ones. The burden of proof for ID proponents is to produce the Intelligent Designer Him(Her)self and lacking that key piece of evidence, such discussion is strictly a topic for the the theological classroom.
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