The Intellectual Taliban

by FrightMare 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • FrightMare
    FrightMare

    One of threads of this tapestry is the patent absurdity of Darwinian evolution. My attacks on Darwinism are not motivated in the least by any desire to defend any superstitious story of our origins. I believe that it will soon be possible to demonstrate mathematically that Darwinian evolution is impossible.

    I do not object to your skepticism that such a proof will be produced. But I find obnoxious your closed minded attitude that such a project is absurd on some arbitrary a priori principles you are pleased to hold. Frankly, I can discern little difference in your attitudes towards Dembski and the Church's attitudes towards Galileo.

    However, I do have a hard time understanding why you consider evolutionary biologists, to be scientists. Evolutionary biologists seem to be for the most part quite inferior mathematicians. The mathematical description of evolution is primitive, fragmented, and contradictory. The field of evolutionary biology seems to be mostly a discipline of myth making to explain away the gapping holes in their theories and lull the atheists to sleep soundly at night.

    You call yourself a skeptic, but nothing could be further from the truth. A true skeptic questions conclusions, doubts premises, exposes assumptions. But you have allied yourself with an Intellectual Taliban rigidly enforcing a suffocating Orthodoxy of Thought. No longer will I call myself a skeptic, but rather I proclaim myself an Iconoclast.

    You say a stranger can not give me a purpose? I think I found one, to vigorously oppose the dogmatic pronouncements of a Scientific Priesthood; to smash the Icons of Materialism, Scientism, Darwinsm; to free Mankind's intellectual and spiritual adventure from the dead hand of a bankrupt 19th century philosophy!

    To the Intellectual Taliban:

    I am your worst nightmare!

  • julien
    julien

    I am more inclined to believe it could be demonstrated mathematically that you are off your rocker.

  • logical
    logical

    And your point is? I didnt understand any of that.

  • FrightMare
    FrightMare

    Oh, my point is that the theory of evolution really seems to be no theory at all, but a grab bag of models and ad hoc explanations which cannot be formed into a coherent whole.

  • Silverleaf
    Silverleaf

    Evolution is like gravity: It's not just a theory. It's the law.

    Silverleaf

  • FrightMare
    FrightMare

    Dogmatism isn't going to help your cause silver, besides, evolution is not in dispute here, it's darwinism, that is evolution through solely strict naturalistic causes.

  • wasasister
    wasasister

    My Dear Fright:
    You have rather preempted any attempt to respond or debate with you, since early in your posting history you declared you were a deliberate flamer, whose purpose was to stir the pot. Why would anyone want to carry on a serious discussion with you?

    Why not reintroduce yourself, telling the board of your true intentions and beliefs rather than promoting ideas solely to foment an argument.

  • FrightMare
    FrightMare

    My name is frightmare and I'm here to expose dogmatism.

  • logical
    logical

    There are more TV sets in the Taliban than there is logic in the evolution theory.

  • Utopian Reformist
    Utopian Reformist

    Before indicting any member of this forum, or their beliefs in science or religion, please visit the following web site and examine some material:

    http://www.talkorigins.org

    First of all, you are incorrectly spreading the label of Darwinism and making broad application. There are many different viewpoints expressed within this forum concerning evolution, adaptation, etc...

    Unless an orthodox Darwinist is promoting that theory in discussion with you, you are merely clashing cymbals out loud in the public square.

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