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We shouldn't be teaching creationism to our school kids. Date published: 1/19/2006
MOST OF THE TIME, I could not But science has nothing to do with it--especially the facts of evolution, which Buchanan mislabels "Darwinism." Intelligent Design is not science, never was science, and is just a baloney sandwich used by religionists to inject religion into science. The court in the Dover case saw that clearly, and the people in Dover tossed out the religionist politicos that foisted such lies on innocent schoolchildren. The plain fact is that science to date finds not one single shred of evidence suggesting nature is designed. That does not mean they won't in the future--just that today they haven't. Buchanan makes the absurd claim that Aristotle was a scientist. Aristotle, the pseudoscientist, at one time concluded men had more teeth than women because they were bigger. He could have just looked in the mouths of both, but he made his "deduction" from his formal logic. Aristotle was first and foremost a logician, giving us deductive logic--which is pretty much useless in science that uses inductive methods. He lived long before scientific method; scientific method in fact developed to counter the Aristotelian methods that dominated the ancient and medieval ages of magic and superstition. Aristotle's notion of the First Unmoved Mover is a comment on the inherent flaw of causal reasoning-infinite regression. In other words, if God caused the universe, who caused God, and who caused the cause that caused God, ad infinitum. Science so far does not show the universe had a "cause." The Big Bang is an expansion theory of what was already there. There is no evidence that what was there came from anywhere or anything. The universe is what we call a Causal Primary--but new evidence from science may change that. Buchanan claims Darwinism cannot say how life began. Darwinism, or evolution, is not about abiogenesis or how life came about. It is about how life forms develop over time. How life forms from lifeless matter is still mostly unknown territory--but science does not make up a myth about it; it simply doesn't know enough yet.
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