Re: Expelled...not bad....anyone?

Ken McElhaney wrote:

> Gee guys...if you admit you don't know...And yet the theories they
> propose (such as the combination of the necessary elements forming on
> the back of a crystal...I'm not making this up) make "Intelligent
> Design" look pretty darn sane.

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Stein asked Ruse how life originated. Ruse's immediate impulse (as mine
would have been) was to launch into an honest effort to explain a
difficult scientific idea. He began by saying that he doesn't know how
life originated, and nor does anybody else. At this point in his
interview, Ruse probably had no notion that his interlocuter had a
completely different agenda to promote, with no hint of sincerity to
balance his own. Ruse patiently explained that the origin of life
(nothing to do with the Darwinian theory itself but the necessary
precursor of Darwinian evolution) is an interesting and unsolved
mystery, one that scientists are actively working on. By way of example,
Ruse could have chosen any of a number of current theories. He chose
just one (it would have taken too long to explain them all) purely as an
illustration of the kind of properties such a theory must have. He
happened to choose the theory proposed by the Scottish chemist Graham
Cairns-Smith, that organic life was preceded by a strange and intriguing
world of replicating patterns on the surfaces of crystals in inorganic
clays. At no time did Ruse say he believed the Cairns-Smith theory, only
that it was the KIND of theory that scientists are actively examining,
as a CANDIDATE for the origin of evolution. Stein just loved it. Mud!
MUD! The sarcasm in his grating, nasal voice was palpable. Maybe this
was when Ruse realised that he had been had.
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