Friday, October 21, 2005

Creationist finds scientific definitions too confining and so he changes them. Good news, Astrology is now a scientific theory.

Dr. Michael Behe, leading intellectual light of the intelligent design movement, faced a dilemma.
In order to call intelligent design a "scientific theory," he had to change the definition of the term.

It seemed the definition offered by the National Academy of Science, the largest and most prestigious organization of scientists in the Western world, was inadequate to contain the scope and splendor and just plain gee-willigerness of intelligent design.

So he devised his own definition of theory, expanding upon the definition of those stuck-in-the-21st-century scientists, those scientists who ridicule him and call his "theory" creationism in a cheap suit.

He'd show them. He'd come up with his own definition.

Details aside, his definition was broader and more inclusive of ideas that are "outside the box."
So, as we learned Tuesday, during Day 11 of the Dover Panda Trial, under his definition of a scientific theory, astrology would be a scientific theory.


Can he do that?

Hey if you are going to challenge the legitimacy of a scientific theory and introduce your own. you are going to have to use the definitions used by scientists in this and every other field of research. If you want to play with the big boys you re going to have to stop your whining and pull up your short pants and get into the game. Pansy.

On the other hand wouldn't a college course in Astrology be kind of fun? I am surprised Berkley doesn't already have one.

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