http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/05/paul_nelsons_continued_lie.php Comments on "Paul Nelson's Continued Lie" en Copyright 2006 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 30 May 2006 12:17:12 -0500 steve s none@example.com Wouldn't it be something if ID proponents like Paul Nelson and Davescot got afflicted, like Jim Carrey in that movie, with the inability to lie? "Hi everybody, I'm an Intelligent Design Theorist. That's a creationist under an assumed name. I'm here to promote Jesus--too bad I don't have a theory, or hypotheses, or any experiments. Because evolution is pretty obviously true, the best I can hope for is to confuse people. Ontogenetic Depth. Specified Complexity. Set-theoretic complement to naturalistic explanations..." http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/05/paul_nelsons_continued_lie.php#comment-97249 http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/05/paul_nelsons_continued_lie.php#comment-97249 Tue, 30 May 2006 11:06:37 -0500 Matt none@example.com This is very disappointing. I had thought that Nelson was above this. http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/05/paul_nelsons_continued_lie.php#comment-97250 http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/05/paul_nelsons_continued_lie.php#comment-97250 Tue, 30 May 2006 11:06:37 -0500 Ginger Yellow none@example.com This is why I have so much more respect for outright creationists than IDists. At least they are willing to make explicit assumptions about the motives and sometimes methods of their designer. They may distort "evidence against evolution" just as badly and work toward a goal rather than working openmindedly , but at least they use their assumptions about the nature of the designer to direct study and hypotheses. It's halfway to science. The whole point about the car and the thief is that we know from past, often personal, experience that thieves often break into cars, we know why they do it and we know how they usually do it. Yet the very thing that IDists insist we cannot do is make assumptions about how or why the designer does its designing. http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/05/paul_nelsons_continued_lie.php#comment-97251 http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/05/paul_nelsons_continued_lie.php#comment-97251 Tue, 30 May 2006 11:06:37 -0500