Philosophical musings on Quanta & Qualia; Materialism & Spiritualism; Science & Religion; Pragmatism & Idealism, etc.
Different interpretations of the same evidence
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Designed To Evolve
Old Earth Creationism without Evolution
“As its name implies, it accepts the age of the universe and the Earth as determined through science. . . . For many, the stigma of evolution invokes the idea of a godless process that is incompatible with common ideas about creation. It seems too haphazard a way for an omnipotent Creator to form beings in his image. . . . This leads to an old earth view that includes the special creation of life. Though macro evolution is rejected with this view, some degree of micro-
• Since the holders of this view fill the gap between the the first day of world-
Intelligent Design
“Old earth creationism provides the philosophical basis for intelligent design. Intelligent design is not a religious or philosophical view of reality in itself but a scientific method. . . . As it is, there is far too little invested into science that evaluates alternatives to purely naturalistic explanations when it comes to theories of origins."
• Most scientists view ID not as a “scientific method”, but a political scheme to get scriptures accepted as scientifically valid insights into the operation of reality. Proponents have muddied the waters with non-
Progressive Creationism
“A variant of old earth creationism is progressive creationism. By this, life on Earth is created in full form, by special creative events throughout geological time. . . . This position is used to explain the progressive nature of the fossil record, while maintaining special creation of life-
• The author seems to consider this variation of Intelligent Design as just one more attempt to fill gaps in the Geological and Paleontological records with divine intervention (special creation) instead of physical processes. Rather than inter-
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Progressive creation of divergent species leaves fossil tracks
Natural Evolution
versus
Artificial Evolution