25.11.07
13.11.07
ID: Adapt and Assimilate
An interesting article in Salon.com today "The Evolution of Creationism". I like the puns, actually I spent the weekend watching borg episode of Star Trek (aside: ST ENT Borg are bogus!) and I can't help but see the similarities in the discussion of ID in this article and borg behaviour!
Stage 1: Adaptation
Defense: "Decades earlier, when the courts deemed creation science -- proto intelligent design -- a religious view and not constitutionally teachable as science in public schools,..."
Response: "....it adapted by cutting God off its letterhead and calling itself "intelligent design." "
Any good Borg Queen knows she need to adapt to the defenses of her prey in order to assimilate.
Stage 2: Assimilation
Strategy: " "We want to teach more about evolution," says Discovery Institute's Casey Luskin, "not less." The "more" they want to teach, of course, is what they see as evolution's shortcomings, leaving an ecological niche that will then be filled by intelligent design."
Well so far the assimilation has proven to be unsuccessful and just like the Borg splinter groups emerge:
Stage 3: Fragmentation
Strategy: "Creationist groups like Answers in Genesis, the Institute for Creation Research, and Reasons to Believe are now attacking I.D. for not having the guts to call its designer God or to be explicit about such key questions as the age of the world."
Ouch! Well you have Lore, Seven, Unimatrix Zero, so many problems to keeping a functional collective!
Damn Humanity and their Free thought!
Stage 4: Defense
Strategy: "the dogmatic Darwinists who have, the I.D.ers say, grown lazy and corrupt sitting atop a monopolistic theory with zero tolerance for dissent, within or outside of their ranks"
Well now, that's not true. There are at least three great books published in the last few years which deal heavily on different perspectives of Evolution:
1) Developmental Plasticity and Evolution (MJ West-Eberhard)
2) The Origins of Genome Architecture (M Lynch)
3) Evolution in Four Dimensions (E Jablonka, MJ Lamb)
Each has been recognized by the scientific community and have been recommended by various people as offering necessary and timly new perspectives in our understanding of Natural Selection and Evolution.
Resistance, it seems, in not futile.
Stage 1: Adaptation
Defense: "Decades earlier, when the courts deemed creation science -- proto intelligent design -- a religious view and not constitutionally teachable as science in public schools,..."
Response: "....it adapted by cutting God off its letterhead and calling itself "intelligent design." "
Any good Borg Queen knows she need to adapt to the defenses of her prey in order to assimilate.
Stage 2: Assimilation
Strategy: " "We want to teach more about evolution," says Discovery Institute's Casey Luskin, "not less." The "more" they want to teach, of course, is what they see as evolution's shortcomings, leaving an ecological niche that will then be filled by intelligent design."
Well so far the assimilation has proven to be unsuccessful and just like the Borg splinter groups emerge:
Stage 3: Fragmentation
Strategy: "Creationist groups like Answers in Genesis, the Institute for Creation Research, and Reasons to Believe are now attacking I.D. for not having the guts to call its designer God or to be explicit about such key questions as the age of the world."
Ouch! Well you have Lore, Seven, Unimatrix Zero, so many problems to keeping a functional collective!
Damn Humanity and their Free thought!
Stage 4: Defense
Strategy: "the dogmatic Darwinists who have, the I.D.ers say, grown lazy and corrupt sitting atop a monopolistic theory with zero tolerance for dissent, within or outside of their ranks"
Well now, that's not true. There are at least three great books published in the last few years which deal heavily on different perspectives of Evolution:
1) Developmental Plasticity and Evolution (MJ West-Eberhard)
2) The Origins of Genome Architecture (M Lynch)
3) Evolution in Four Dimensions (E Jablonka, MJ Lamb)
Each has been recognized by the scientific community and have been recommended by various people as offering necessary and timly new perspectives in our understanding of Natural Selection and Evolution.
Resistance, it seems, in not futile.
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