Comments on: Lee Harris on Darwinism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design

By: Tom Cerber

Tom Cerber — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:33:11 +0000

Jim: I disagree. Darwin had a profounder understanding of the philosophical issues underpinning his theories than do contemporary Darwinians like Wilson and especially Dawkins. They simply assert their faith in the underpinnings while Darwin had a clearer sense of its limits. I don’t find the silence of the latter Darwinians a sign of their sophistication. Quite the opposite, actually.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:28:59 +0000

It is a mistake to compare researchers of the long ago beginning of the experimental method with the more modern Darwin and the much more modern evolutionary synthesis. One rarely finds religion in modern scientific thinking and certainly not at the top end.

By: eyun

eyun — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:23:18 +0000

Interesting article. Thanks.

It is too bad Tom won’t read it as he “prefer(s) to think for (his)self rather that regurgitating someone elseâ€™s thinking.”

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By: 8d82thebone

8d82thebone — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:58:35 +0000

Please allow me to correct myself. In my first comment, I stated, in error, that calculus was the invention of Sir Francis Bacon, when it was in fact Sir Isaac Newton.

By: 8d82thebone

8d82thebone — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:41:46 +0000

Mr. Harris fails to observe ,as do Darwinists, that among the greatest names in modern science are men of faith, many of whom were pioneers in their fields.(Sir Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Robert Boyle, Blaise Pascal, Michael Faraday,William Ramsay, the list goes on and on…) Indeed, even Robert Oppenheimer acknowledged that modern science was born out of the Christian worldview (‘On Science and Culture’, Encounter magazine, Oct. 1962)
So for anyone, Christian or otherwise, to lay exclusive claim to the domain of science,and scientific theory , is just plain ignorant and absurd, to say the least. There are brilliant men of science today, who happen to be men of faith as well. Do the Darwinists say that calculus is mindless hocus-pocus, because it was invented by Bacon? When was the last time someone wrote to try and debunk Faraday’s electromagnetic theory? Initially, all new ideas are met with a certain skepticism, and so it will be with Intelligent Design.I could go on and on, but instead allow me to leave you with a quote;
“The vast mysteries of the universe should only confirm our belief in the certainty of its Creator. I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe, as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.”
Werner von Braun

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CIVITATENSIS » Lee Harris on Darwinism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:23:30 +0000

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