The probability is that we will find one best "explanation of who we are and where we come from" (we have already laid some of the groundwork, but doubtless there is much we still have to learn), but no "Master Designer" will have had anything to do with it. Already the Master Design has been found to be full of egregious errors (the peripelvic birth of mega-cranial bipeds like ourselves, to start with) which only religious Candides would deny.
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First off: to Adam Kirsch, bravo for a thoughtful and badly needed review and editorial article.
The last paragraph is particularly... [MORE]
David Edwards
Jul 4, 2007 14:32
Mankind has searched for the truth since the dawn of history. He has sought it within himself and in the... [MORE]
John O Mahony
Jul 4, 2007 06:06
Man's steady accumulation of information about the world will lead him to one of two possible roads.....1), a wide... [MORE]
Ralph Gaily
Jun 21, 2007 15:33
Religion and myth are not the only paradigmatic way of viewing or interpreting reality. Modern science, wildly successful as it... [MORE]
Harold Kildow
Jul 4, 2007 11:36
The probability is that we will find one best "explanation of who we are and where we come from" (we...
Hugh Young
Jul 5, 2007 01:20
or, 3) a narrow road that is full of discovery and enlightenment, which leads us to the conclusion that we... [MORE]
Pukako
Jul 5, 2007 01:30
Too bad the review did not mention contemporary challenges to the dating of the Earth, such as put forth by... [MORE]