El Schwalmo hat geschrieben:Durch eine intensivere Lektüre von ID-Literatur (für meinen Artikel hatte ich hauptsächlich amerikanische Autoren, vor allem Dembski und Behe berücksichtigt) habe ich meine Einschätzung ein wenig geändert. Ich halte immer noch nichts von ID (das Occamsche Rasiermesser, obzwar nur eine Heuristik, scheint mir hier ein starkes Argument zu sein), aber ich habe eingesehen, dass uns das stärkste Argument gegen ID (noch?) nicht zur Verfügung steht: einfach zeigen, wie die Strukturen, die angeblich nicht durch ungelenkte Mechanismen entstehen können, doch so entstehen können.
Man kann nicht alles lesen, aber man sollte auch nicht das Wichtige ignorieren. Eine Befragung von Deans und Chefs der Biologie-Falkultäten von etwa 150 führenden Universitäten der USA durch Roger Camp
http://csicop.org/intelligentdesignwatc ... versy.htmlergibt eindeutige Ergebnisse zu den Behauptungen der ID-ler unter William Dembski. Einige Auszüge
The entire biological sciences field from biochemistry to ecology is predicated on the fact of evolution. In 100 years of intensive research no facts inconsistent with evolutionary theory have ever been found. On the contrary, as we have obtained more and more detailed information, especially at the molecular and genomic levels, both the fact that evolution has occurred, creating the species currently existing on earth (including man), and the various mechanisms by which this occurs have become more and more clear. The question is not whether evolution has occurred, but which mechanisms have been most important. There is no need to invoke the supernatural or any higher power to explain life on earth. There is no controversy whatsoever among the many thousands of scientists in the field about the fact of evolution.
Tom Blumenthal
I have not heard one faculty member in my department speak in favor of ID as a scientific alternative to classic mechanisms of evolution. In fact we have had a number of faculty who have written editorials and been interviewed on the subject and who have tried to explain the position of most biologists. Our department offers a course for non-majors entitled Evolution and Creationism and sponsors a Darwin Day. In these venues and in other seminars and discussions, we try to present both sides in a rationale way. But the message is always the same--ID is not a scientific approach to the origin of species.
A.P. Wheeler
The bottom line is that there is no controversy about Intelligent Design. Science is what it is. It has nothing to say about God or religion. It has nothing to say about Intelligent Design other than that it is an untestable concept and therefore is not science. The flip side of that coin is that Intelligent Design has nothing to say about scientific theories, Darwin's or anyone else's. Any "controversy" that might be invoked is an artificial one designed, in my view, to serve another purpose.
W. Geoffrey Owen
There is no sense in which "Intelligent Design" is science - as logic, it is an example of the argumentum ad ignorantiam, a material fallacy, and there is no associated experimental program or testable hypothesis. Thus, there could be no scientific controversy.
What surprises me is that there is so little concern among the religious about what poor theology it is - surely people with genuine faith wouldn't require a scientific proof of their beliefs, and wouldn't accept a proof based on what we do not know, as what we do not know is diminishing with time.
Elliot Meyerowitz
There is one faculty member in my college who publicly ascribes to Intelligent Design. No others have done so publicly, and most who have shared an opinion are opposed to ID as a scientific principle. The vast majority, then, do not see a scientific controversy, but there is a visible minority of (at least) one who does.
(Name withheld)
ElSchwalmo geht es offensichtlich nicht so sehr um die Sache, sondern um Bestätigung für seine Ansichten zu finden. So etwas führt zu einseitigen Aussagen wie bei ID Prophet Steven Meyer, der wie die Mehzahl kein Biologe ist, viele eifrige ID-ler sind nicht einmal Wissenschaftler:
“When two groups of experts disagree about a controversial subject that intersects the public school curriculum students should learn about both perspectives." Da wird unauffällig insuiniert es gäbe eine nennenswerte Fraktion von Wissenschaftler, die ID stützen. Unter den 150 Universitäten mit annähernd 1000 wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitern hat nur 1 UNI diese Ansicht vertreten, eindeutig begrenzt auf nur 1 Wissenschaftler. Für jede noch so abwegige These oder Theorie, es wird sich immer 1 schwarzes Schaf finden lassen. Selbst die Flat-Earth-Society hat um die 120 Mitglieder