tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post1737342477484713340..comments2023-06-14T21:50:15.221+10:00Comments on Ediacaran: The Cambrian Explosion, the Discovery Institute, and James ValentineChris Nedinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06978886926715669724noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-15809855173242209982010-01-04T09:06:38.304+11:002010-01-04T09:06:38.304+11:00I note that Dr Valentine doesn't specifically ...I note that Dr Valentine doesn't specifically endorse Darwinian evolution. He uses the vague term "evolution" instead. Many ID proponents are happy to accept that some form of evolution occurred, they all accept microevolution and many accept common descent.<br /><br />The main point about Valentines comments is not that he accepted ID. It is that his findings are a nail in the coffin of the specifically neo-Darwinian picture of evolution. He doesn't need to be an ID proponent to make that point.<br /><br />When I watched Darwins Dilemma, Inew that some of the testimony would be from people who doubt neo-Darwinian acounts of the Cambrian explosion, but also reject ID. The fact that Valentine doesn't accept ID as an alternative makes his testimony about the Cambrian phyla in DD all the harder to dismiss by the ruling orthodoxy.Alan Nivennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-86182611548284521752009-12-30T11:17:13.519+11:002009-12-30T11:17:13.519+11:00Please read "ignorant" as "bad"...Please read "ignorant" as "bad". I dont want to be too harsh.. I cant edit it.Cornelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-56145794837839526462009-10-26T09:21:33.548+11:002009-10-26T09:21:33.548+11:00There is no debate. ID is religously motivated and...There is no debate. ID is religously motivated and scientifically vacuous. Like it's Young Earth Creationism cousin, the evidince speaks for itself.<br /><br />When people are misled into appearing in order to provide some credece for your views, when the only people you can get to actually support your views are philosophers and an environmental/marine biologist, when your claims contain falsehoods such as those exposed here, doesn't that tell you something about ID?<br /><br />We do not debate flat earthers, geocentrics and ID for the same reasonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-30973455392323472009-10-26T07:28:00.291+11:002009-10-26T07:28:00.291+11:00Sad that the anti ID brigade don't simply do o...Sad that the anti ID brigade don't simply do open debate and let their ideas do the talking. When someone says that they would not have been interviewed in a piece with a contrary point of view it makes me wonder if their own ideas are not just a little mute.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-41922489117012180042009-10-13T13:16:11.315+11:002009-10-13T13:16:11.315+11:00I'm checking up to see if this has been posted...I'm checking up to see if this has been posted elsewhereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5517176012861550589.post-6250196232773286982009-10-07T02:17:34.319+11:002009-10-07T02:17:34.319+11:00Hi Chris -- did Valentine send you this, or is did...Hi Chris -- did Valentine send you this, or is did he put it on a website somewhere or something?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com