Mercer
February 17, 2022, 3:00am
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Well, you can ask @Eddie , who is quite a fan of at least one of these events:
“News flash: Denton is far from the only person who says that the current “consensus of biologists” around evolution “is not able to account for all features found in biology.” Many people from the Altenberg group…”
I think we are all weary of talking about Denton, especially since almost no one has read the particular Denton books I’ve referred to and arguments about “phantom texts” – texts whose content is unknown to most of the participants – are a bit frustrating. So I suggest a shift to the thought of another scientist who, as far as I know, is not a member of the Discovery Institute, and whose text we can look at together.
Here is an interesting passage from physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Charles H. Townes:
"Intelligent design, as one sees it from a scientific point of view, seems to be quite real. This is a very special universe: it’s remarkable that it came out just this way. If the laws of physics weren’t just the way they are, we couldn’t be here at all. The sun couldn’t be there, the laws of gravity and nuclear laws and magnetic theory, quantum mechanics, and so on have to be just the way they are for us to be here.
“Some scientists argue that “well, there’s an enormous number of…
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