Contemplating Design
by MikeGene
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January 15th, 2008 at 12:25 am
did he purposely dress up to match the book?
Comment by gore — January 15, 2008 @ 12:25 am
January 15th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Are you invoking design inference?
Sorry, we cannot answer! It is not scientific!
Comment by paijo — January 15, 2008 @ 4:21 am
January 15th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
It looks like he's further along in the book than I am. I'm in the middle of chapter 7. I was busy with some other stuff. I should have more time, now. But I'm highlighting just about everything. This book is a joy to read.
Comment by Bilbo — January 15, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
January 16th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I can understand why some get annoyed:
I commute to work with a guy who is faith-free evangelical.
We get along, despite some of the cracks he makes about the Catholic Church. He's pretty vocal on his views and his arguments are usually so bad that they don't seem like they even need to be addressed.
But during our commute he commented to me (after seeing a book I was reading regarding evolution, design, etc…) "Did you know that Darwin ditched his theory on his deathbed?"
I responded back with, "I'm pretty certain that is not true.".
He replied back, "no… it's true."
Then I, "okay, assuming it happened… what made him change his mind?"
He responded with, "he examined the fly's eye and knew that there is no way his theory could have accounted for it."
Me, "He had enough energy on his death bed to start examining the eyes of flies? That's seems pretty random of him to do - considering he was pretty close to death at that moment."
He, "It was brought to him for him to look at."
Me, "what did he do? Clap his hands together and say 'fetch me the eye of a fly!'".
He, "All I know is that he was looking at a fly's eye and ditched his theory after it."
Me, "before he died?"
He, "yup"
Me, "from his death bed?"
He, "yeah, before he died"
Comment by Doug — January 16, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
January 16th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
So Darwin died of compound interest?
Comment by Bilbo — January 16, 2008 @ 8:06 pm
January 16th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
'Faith-free evangelical'? I thought you were talking about an evangelical atheist at first.
Comment by valerie — January 16, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
January 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
"fetch me the eye of the fly" that is the best thing I heard all day! Thank you for sharing that haha!
Comment by gore — January 16, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
January 17th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
LOL!!!!!!!!
Yesterday he went right from, "you know that evolution requires more faith that Christianity", to "the founder of Mormonism was a drunk and a liar", to "why did the Roman Catholic Church add all of those unnecessary books to my universally accepted Christian Bible".
My head was just spinning. In the same sentence I found myself defending evolution and Mormonism.
Again, I'm Catholic… but it's just lose/lose debating with this guy. Don't get me wrong, aside from this stuff I like the guy.
The one thing I WON'T let him do…….. is bad mouth Brett Favre. The guy's also from Dallas.
Comment by Doug — January 17, 2008 @ 3:52 pm