Always love hearing him speak. He's a good face to put in the front of this ...cough cough "controversy".
Excelent, perhaps this should be added to your multimedia links
Put it on my video iPod!
Excellent. Do you know if the earlier lecture on Hamid al-Ghazali posted any where?
The role of ID in the history of science ranks right up there with phlogiston as an important concept. In other words, it is an embarrassing footnote in the annals of scientific ignorance. Worse still because at least the proponents of phlogiston were actually trying to solve a problem or answer a question. The ID promoters are only trying to promote "creationism in a cheap tuxedo."
Tyson is an atheist.
He conflates methodological naturalism with philosophical naturalism.
If evolution is so overwhelming, and design so ignore, "methinks thou protesteth too much."
Oooh, our resident troll is picking up fifty-cent words from the sesquipedalians at the DI! Until they can produce some hard evidence, they'll just be Philosophy majors gone bad. And just as useless. (Monosyllables now: "Would you like fries with that?")
Grady, considering that you're such a persistent troll, we can only wonder what YOU'RE truly protesting. If you don't like the laws of nature, WAAAAA. Too damned bad. The Universe, by best estimates, was here some thirteen million years and change before you were born. It doesn't change its workings to make you feel like its center, no matter how much you whine on message boards.
More importantly, someone's opinion on God only matters when they're an ideologue like yourself. Most other folks have more room between their ears and in the breadth of their personalities. Even people who believe in some God.
My cards on the table: I just want creationist wanktards out of my schools and government before they do any more damage to the scientific prestige of the United States. And I want their right-wing holier than thou hate-mongering colleagues the fuck out of the government my taxes underwrite. Other than that, I don't give a rat's ass what god, tree, or mushroom anybody worships. Just keep it out of my face and don't do it out of my nickel.
The fact that anyone, anywhere lets these cretins, be it the sophists of ID or the flat-earth YECs pass themselves off as "scientists" is the call to arms. You don't call yourself a mathematician when you decide that two and two equal five whenever it helps balance your checkbook. Don't call yourself a scientist if you can't discipline thinking with the same rigor as someone working on, say, electronics.
Who said I don't like the laws of nature?
There you go again.
You just go beyond what you know in making claims about the universe.
Grady said, "Who said I don't like the laws of nature?"
Grady, you have to get to know them before you can like them. That rhetorical question of yours is yet another load of dingoe's kidneys.
It certainly appears clear from your myriad posts that your reality-testing is grossly flawed. Magical thinking and nasty ad hominem attacks are your forte.
Troll-tart - try a toaster. Electric. Plugged in. In your bath.
You wouldn't do that, would you? But, you have never had a live toaster tossed into your bath before, have you? You don't need to have experienced the process to understand that it would be shocking.
Evolution is as real as the electrical shock you would receive from that toaster. If you don't believe me - try the toaster.
Consider how the toaster would set you up for a career in the church: you would become a perfect friar!
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