RE: paleonet A swipe at science from Ireland

["Paul Cutlip" <Cutlip.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I think My Myers just raised the bar for abject ignorance with that column.  It seems that one of the (many) inherent problems with these ID arguments is that they assume that science has "run out of time" and that if we don't know it by now then we just need to chalk it up to their designer (personally, I like the flying spaghetti monster).

Paul Cutlip
Department of Natural Science
St Petersburg College
St Petersburg, FL



-----Original Message-----
From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk on behalf of BreandC!n MacGabhann
Sent: Tue 8/30/2005 5:22 PM
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: paleonet A swipe at science from Ireland
 
A bad development this. A columnist in one of the biggest Irish newspapers, the Irish Times, used his article today to take a swipe at science, with a subtle dig at evolution in the middle of the article. 

I'm going to write a response which I'll post here once I've finished it

I'm absolutely apalled that this is seeping into our culture as well. I didn't think it would take hold here anytime soon.

Breandán




An Irishman's Diary - Kevin Myers

Every week, year in and year out, the magazines Science Today and Nature unfailingly report on new breakthroughs which are about to reveal the origins of existence, the inner secrets of the atom or the real size of the universe, notes Kevin Myers.

God does not intrude upon these grand theories, of course, for an ab initio intellectual dismissal of the possible role of a divine creator in any discussion of scientific matters is an ideological dogma for modern science.

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