Kenneth
R. Miller, professor of biology
at Brown University. His research work on cell membrane structure and function
has been reported in Nature Cell.and
the Journal of Cell Biology (naturalhistory.com)
He has co-authored several
high school and college biology textbooks and published the book Finding
Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution,
Cliff Street Books, 1999.
In his efforts to support
the evolutionary theory in an article entitled 'The Flaw in the Mousetrap'
in Nature, April, 2002, he begins by stating that."The
scientific community has been unimpressed by attempts to resurrect
the
so-called argument from design...".
Now, come on Ken, the scientific
community is a whole and I'm sure that most of those comprising
it do not relish.implication
of consent
by association.
True scientists look askance
at such hauteur
and should be removed from predilection,
which you infer.
I consider a 'true' scientist
to be
open-minded.(example),
one willing to consider inconsistencies, leaving no stone unturned in his
assay,
before any assessment
toward assets.
Many
behavioral
'scientists' need to familiarize
themselves once again with the root meaning of the
word 'scientist'.
But I am heartened by the
title of the book that Ken has published, Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's
Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution. I see open-mindedness
there.
Soon, I pray.(and
I am praying for you), this will be
true for you too:.Isaiah
25:7. And you will be out from the spell
of the master deceiver.(Revelation
12:9).and
into peace:.Romans
16:20;
2Thessalonians 3:16;
Philippians
4:9; 1Thessalonians 5:23.
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Ian
Tattersall, curator of
anthropology
at the American Museum of Natural History: excerpts from his article in
Nature.(naturalhistory.com),
April, 2002, from his latest book,.The
Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human,
Harcourt, 2001.."Religions
seek ultimate truth and do so in a variety of ways. But no really honest
scientist would claim to be doing anything like the same thing.
"Science is a matter of honing
our perceptions
of ourselves and of the world around us, of producing an increasingly accurate
description of our physical and biological environments and how they work.
"What science emphatically
is not is an absolutist system of belief. Rather, it is constantly
subject to rearrangement and change as our collective knowledge increases.
How can we make progress in science if what we believe today cannot be
shown tomorrow to be somehow wrong or at least incomplete?
"Religious knowledge is in
principle eternal, but scientific knowledge is by its very nature
provisional.
But, in actual fact, scientists are in pursuit of knowledge about mundane
realities and are not in the business of revealing timeless truths. Indeed,
intelligent design.(see
a very intelligent movie),
which is offered as an alternative to evolution by natural selection, is
essentially an engineering concept. ...Artificial intelligence...is unlikely
ever to match our own strange but unique
brand of smarts...scientists would do well to insist on educating students
better about what the profession.(scientists)
actually
involves. For if our young people think of science as monolithic.(massive).and
authoritarian,
they are likely to have excessively high expectations for it and to be
disappointed by the inevitable
cases in which scientific hypotheses
turn out to be wrong. Evolutionary theory is deficient
because it is 'just a hypotheses'? If so, then we might as well throw out
all of science, for the same is true of all scientific knowledge."
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William
A. Dembski, Ph.D. mathematics and philosophy, associate research professor
at Baylor University, senior fellow with the Discovery Institute in Seattle,
author of.The
Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities, Cambridge
University Press, 1998 and.No
Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence,
Rowan and Littlefield, 2001.."...in
special sciences ranging from forensics to archaeology to SETI.(Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).the
appeal to a designing intelligence is indispensable.
What's more, within these sciences there are well developed techniques
for identifying intelligence. Essential to all these techniques is the
ability to eliminate chance and necessity.
