Thursday, November 17, 2005
Debate Round 2
Behe
Fuller
- Bacterial flagellum is like a machine.
- Behe separates religion and science but he makes sure that they are able to mix in logic since he is searching for truth.
- Intelligent design is not essential for Christianity. Yet it works well with the Christian worldview.
- Immune system is so complex that is could not have come about by natural selection. Immune system is irreducible complex, like the blood clotting system.
- The “simple cell” is not simple at all. Chances that natural selection determined every single change are negligible.
- Archeology uses the inferences to design in finding tools or bowls or anything that looks designed. I.D. extends this identification process to biology.
- Just because the designer is not known does not mean there is no designer.
- Evolution of cells is not published at all.
- Publication of I.D. is also absent which is a drawback.
- Behe’s book was very intensely peer-reviewed. The peers did not agree, but the book was still published.
- There should be more than option for students to believe when it comes to theory.
Fuller
- Fuller is not an expert in science; instead, he is a philosopher of science (?). I.D. has not had enough investigation to throw it out of the school system.
- Fuller believes that evolution is more convincing than I.D.
- Scientific theories should be taken into scientist’s community prior to being taught in high schools.
- There has not been probing of I.D. to throw it out.
- However, that happens in scientific community, not schools.
- There is and could be a natural process to bring about change.
