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Infidels,
Freethinkers, Humanists, and Unbelievers |
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new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be
judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how
well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge
how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged
into the best database of the biological literature. A search for
keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A
search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of
research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every
successful biological research program."
-- Chet Raymo
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Chet Raymo is Professor Emeritus at Stonehill College in North
Easton, Massachusetts. He is the author of eleven books on science
and nature, including Skeptics and True Believers, An Intimate
Look At the Night Sky, The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe,
and most recently Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's
Holy Mountain. His work has been widely anthologized, including
in the Norton Book of Nature Writing. He is a winner of a 1998
Lannan Literary Award for his nonfiction work. His most famous
book was the novel entitled The Dork of Cork, and was made into
the feature length film Frankie Starlight.
Additrional
Quotation
"I
am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among
the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting
and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha
I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded
with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there,
a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute
particulars" I will make my way."
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