I just discovered this blog today. And they just so happened to have something up that directly caught my interest.
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On this issue I would like to ask of design critics: How would you be able to treat diseases if you felt that
pathogens would just develop resistance to the very drugs you're using?
Behe had a lot to say about this in Edge of Evolution, pointing out that if one admitted there were evolutionary
limitations, one might be able to concoct a drug combination strong enough to wipe the given disease out in
no time without resorting to using drugs with more cost or side effects than needed. Simply formulate cures
that are beyond the reach of evolutionary processes and the disease won't adapt in time to overcome it.
On top of this, are critics aware that Louis Pasteur wasn't anywhere near an advocate for Darwinian theory?
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I know others on here might disagree, but I don't see how the term "Darwinist" is really useful for anything. For instance, is Michael Behe a "Darwinist" for affirming common ancestry between apes and humans?
And besides that, those that are critical or supportive of Intelligent Design come from a wide variety of fields and backgrounds besides just biology (physics for instance). I think discussions like this would be more fruitful if we simply abandoned that term and said design critics instead.
I'm not condoning the fact that people offended by the term fail to realize they were the ones who came up with it in the first place. Wells gave some pretty good coverage of this in his PIG guide.
Some questions about commenting:
Does it matter if we decide to use proxies, VPN or Tor browsers to hide our real IP address or do the moderators need that to confirm we are the same person that originally posted under a given name?
Or are they not even visible to you guys - making my use of someone else's computer unnecessary?
I ask because I'd like to be able to comment on here without there being any trace of which University it comes from...
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