Re: Berlinski--A Scientific Scandal Part I From Commentary

In a message dated 4/14/2003 7:33:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, michaeld313@yahoo.com writes:

> I think it might be premature to think that the
> "younger generation" can be bamboozled with the
> zealotry of any group in the scientific comunity. The
> group seeks to preserve and protect its own is nothing
> new. I myself constantly recieve pleasure from the
> parallels between religious and theoretic devotees.
> Back to my original comment...Im a 25 year old who
> likes to think for himself...novel that. One of the
> characteristics common to my peers is that we rarely
> take what is handed to us.


I am delighted that your generation can maintain its skepticism. The last generation was getting to be an embarrassement. The question of evolution is tricky, but not really that hard, noone knows. So anyone who claims to have a theory needs to wise up and stop feeding Richard Dawkins' kitty. He has made a bundle in the last twenty five years. Yet was cogently critiqued almost from the start. 
In fact, it is not always easy to resist the blandishments of scientism, and on evolution the confusion, almost disinformation, does tend to mislead beginners, as evidence the not always transparent misuse of the genetic algorithm, as in this 'demo' of the 'evolution of the eye'. 


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