http://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/1513/ Commentary on what interests me, reflecting my personal take on the world Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:44:32 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/1513/#comment-2485 John Tertullian Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:23:24 +0000 http://adamsmith.wordpress.com/?p=1513#comment-2485 Adam, I find it a bit amusing that your namesake was an intelligent design buff--well, a deist actually--who propounded the Invisible Hand and all that stuff. My own suspicion is that intelligent design is more deistic than Christian, and maybe many Christians latch on to it because they are looking for a middle ground to gain some traction and respect in a dominantly atheistic materialistic world. This is a lost cause--not the design bit, but the search for middle ground and respect. Evolutionism as a metaphysic or theory of being is fallacious nonsense. Even Plato in his cave could have worked that out, without a single actual observation. Tautologies are neither scientific, nor rational. They are vacuous. Evolution is the grand tautology of the last century. Why would "science" adopt it so universally? For exactly the same reasons and dynamics as are now evident in the Great Global Warming Swindle. There are other non-scientific drivers at play. You may be interested in a recent post where I argued that actually no-one really believes in evolutionism. But that is a small matter, since it remains a universally convenient fiction. http://jtcontracelsum.blogspot.com/2008/06/mythology-of-evolution.html JT Adam, I find it a bit amusing that your namesake was an intelligent design buff–well, a deist actually–who propounded the Invisible Hand and all that stuff. My own suspicion is that intelligent design is more deistic than Christian, and maybe many Christians latch on to it because they are looking for a middle ground to gain some traction and respect in a dominantly atheistic materialistic world. This is a lost cause–not the design bit, but the search for middle ground and respect.
Evolutionism as a metaphysic or theory of being is fallacious nonsense. Even Plato in his cave could have worked that out, without a single actual observation. Tautologies are neither scientific, nor rational. They are vacuous. Evolution is the grand tautology of the last century. Why would “science” adopt it so universally? For exactly the same reasons and dynamics as are now evident in the Great Global Warming Swindle. There are other non-scientific drivers at play.
You may be interested in a recent post where I argued that actually no-one really believes in evolutionism. But that is a small matter, since it remains a universally convenient fiction. http://jtcontracelsum.blogspot.com/2008/06/mythology-of-evolution.html
JT

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