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poliphiloI've been on a message board where Darwinists and Creationists were slugging it out. Ouch, ouch, ouch!
Such dogmatism- on both sides. But, as one of the posters pointed out, Darwinism is a scientific theory and Intelligent Design is a philosophical theory. They belong in different disciplines.
It's as if one team turned up for the match in football strip and the other team in cricket whites.
Such dogmatism- on both sides. But, as one of the posters pointed out, Darwinism is a scientific theory and Intelligent Design is a philosophical theory. They belong in different disciplines.
It's as if one team turned up for the match in football strip and the other team in cricket whites.
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Date: 2006-12-13 06:08 pm (UTC)Sure, it could be. But scientifically, to achieve the status of "theory," an idea has to have huge amounts of evidence supporting it. You don't just get to be a theory because someone had a hunch.
Sure, evolution is "just" a theory. So is gravity.
Intelligent Design, however, has not achieved the level of theory yet, scientifically speaking.