These videos I found compelling, especially since it's discussing something other than Vodoo Economics. I've been re-reading a lot of materials from back in college that I'm sure I didn't ingest as much as possible back then specific to creation and the impact of modern scientific thought on that concept. This is a good, brief interlude on that topic that makes me want to see Ben Stein's movie. Perhaps, unlike Michael Moore's films, I won't want to rip my hair out within the first 8 seconds.
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYW1EBuNkp0&feature=related
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPXXLXA-_YE&feature=related
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUJzmiwQHY0&NR=1
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I love this conversation, and it's refreshing to hear a solid argument for intelligent design and for religious academic freedom in secular universities. My one complaint is that Stein and RC make the conversation a little more "a or b" than it really is. It is not clear to me that Darwinianism precludes belief in intelligent design. Science is the process of describing what happens and determining the cause of things and events within the context of the natural world. Asking what meaning these events and causes have, and what significance they have, is the realm of metaphysics, theology, philosophy and other humanities. While bringing them together is important and edifying, it is possible to have a scientific inquiry that makes no statement, positive or negative, about God's existence. Evolution / the Darwinian inquiry is one such inquiry. To trace back the stages of evolution proves nothing about God, precisely because God is assumed out of the equation from the beginning. The only inquiry is 'what was the prior NATURAL cause?' Needless to say, God is not found by science at the beginning of the line - at the point of the bang or the 'leap' from the primordial ooze. He is not found because he is not asked after. He is not found like the fish food factory is not found by a fish looking for something to eat in its tank. The scientific inquiry begins and ends with the physical natural world. Here, when science brings us back to the beginning of all 'things' the religious person or the inquisitive philosopher then asks bravely one more time (as Stein does) "yes, but why?" Thus is born the theory of Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design is not a scientific viewpoint, it is a religious perspective on a scientific viewpoint. Just as a pure scientific inqiury proves nothing about the existence of God, the religious inquiry as to what unseen being or force guides the universe contributes very little to the science of evolution. So why does Stein think that Intelligent Design should be taught in science class at public schools?
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