It appears there are some evolutionist who disagree with each other and get a little testy when they are challenged by a fellow Darwinist. What makes matters worse is their common enemy William Dembski published their heated emails on his blog: Uncommon Descent.
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Philosophers getting bitter w/ one another? Darling, it's been happening as long as there's been philosophy.
Oh, I understand that. I just thought it was kinda funny. It sheds absolutely no light on anything at all, just an interesting look at the "drama" between the two.
Wow, I like this guy Ruse – saying what Christians have been saying for some time now.
Ruse distinguishes between evolution as a scientific theory that contradicts some religious doctrines and "evolutionism", which is a philosophy that claims that evolution has made religion obsolete.
"I think that you and Richard [Dawkins] are absolute disasters in the fight against intelligent design … neither of you are willing to study Christianity seriously and to engage with the ideas – it is just plain silly and grotesquely immoral to claim that Christianity is simply a force for evil, as Richard claims – more than this, we are in a fight, and we need to make allies in the fight, not simply alienate everyone of goodwill."
Where is the exchange on Dembski's site? I couldn't find it.
I found it, it was on Feb. 21.
gotcha. Philosopher catfights are, indeed, great things to behold. And this one's pretty amusing.
It’s telling that the best ID supporters can come up with is a “cat fight” on some minor point between two philosophers of science.
ID is so, so dead as science that it’s not even fights between scientists that IDers look to — it’s fights between people who ponder over the philosophy of scientsts.
Meanwhile, evolution marches on. 50 new journal articles on evolution last week, 25 times the number of journal articles on ID in the last 16 years.
Ed,
You wish it was dead, but popular (read "non-scientificly indoctrinated") support for ID is growing world wide, and slowly seeping into the narrow, bigoted and biased minds that now control the orthodoxy of science. The fact is, it is not dead as long as significant portions of the population support it and feel that evolutionists have overstepped their bounds with unprovable assertions and sweeping statements of intellectual superiority.
IDists and Creationists have enough scientific evidence to be credible to more than uneducated, religious rubes. It's only a matter of time before scientists must at least learn to differentiate, as Ruse has (what an ironic name), between the science of evolution and the philosophy of it.