The Collapse of Intelligent Design:Kenneth R. Miller Lecture

The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the Next Monkey Trial be in Ohio? Kenneth R. Miller's presentation on Intelligent Design. Recorded January 3, 2006 in Strosacker auditorium. Kenneth R. Miller is the Professor of Biology Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University.

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Did a criticism of Intelligent Design just begin with a prayer?

[LoricaLady]

...What is relevant is what is scientific, what is logical. But how convenient if you have a position that is not really scientific or logical but it is protected by a politically correct political appointee who can be used to stamp out dissenting voices. I don't remember if it's here or in another vid, but I heard Miller implying that future Supreme Court cases might be fought and that those who are against evo "could be in bad straits." Are you getting the picture, comrades? To be cont.

[LoricaLady]

20:55 "The legal system worked as well" we are told, referring to the Dover Court Trial. The judge "ruled on whether or not intelligent design was actually a scientific idea." This is not the legal system "working." This is evoevangelists using the state to enforce it's "religion" on the populace. The judge had no scientific training, nor did the lawyers. Most important of all, he had no legal right whatsoever to be telling people what is science & what is not. What he said is irrelevant...

[LoricaLady]

17:59 I won't get into scientific arguments making a case for intelligent design until Miller gets to the science he feels refutes it, later.. However, the science teachers, probably in all innocence, don't realize that by teaching evo they are doing the very thing they think they oppose, i.e. teaching something false. I worked in the school system as a speech pathologist & know they don't reallly understand how to critically analyze it, & are usually totally clueless on logical fallacies. Cont

[LoricaLady]

16:47 "Everything in science should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critcally considered." What they really mean is "Everything except science that disagrees with evolution!" When did we ever see, in a standard textbook,the truth that evolutionits really don't agree on much of anything, that the primal pond is b.s.,that there is 0 evidence mutations or natural selection lead to anything above the level of speciation? Never! They go to court to squash dissent. Cont

[LoricaLady]

...and no one bothers to mention that it is just 1 of evolution's dataless theories that flies in the face of actual scientific evidence. If you find some "Cambrian" fossils on mountain tops - which is common - well they get into magical thinking again and tell you "the earth moved" and you are expected to believe, with no baseline & no data to back up what they say in the unobservable & untestable "billions & millions" of years, that this explains away the Column's absence.. To be cont.

[LoricaLady]

...and therefore for the health of life on the planet overall? They tell us diamonds took ages to produce yet there is carbon 14 in them and it doesn't last as long as the diamonds supposedly do. They told us there was a Geologic Column with dates of millions of years between each "age" but...uh oh...that was just a 19th century construct with 0 evidence & worldwide digs have since revealed...0 evidence for even 1 such thing. Yet textbooks commonly have pictures of The Geologic Column...

[LoricaLady]

...times have the evolutionists themselves changed the date on the so called age of the earth? Do all of them - in various fields, even in any single field - agree on how old the earth is? No. Gee, what if someone wanted to ask certain Qs., like, how could the sun maintain it's very delicate balance of heat output with the planet's life forms over 4 billion years? Oh, and the moon is not staying still and we need it, also, to stay in its delicate balance for the control of the tides...

[LoricaLady]

...the "elite", don't try to educate yourself on the issues, just believe what you are told by the "experts." Again, we are not seeing any actual scientific evidence for evolution (and we never will - only dataless speculation presented as evidence along with logical fallacies) but are getting only the appeal to authority logical fallacy here. 13:28 Here the audience is invited to ridicule the idea that anyone would disagree that the earth is 4 billion years old. Let's see, now, how many....

[LoricaLady]

Cont. We see the very name of Bush being laughed at in what is presumably a mostly liberal audience (not that I personally think there is any significant difference between Republicans & Democrats). His statement that students should be able to hear both sides is not supported. We are told that the hopes are that Bush will "listen to his science advisor" who is very pro abortion. This is typical of how they want things to go. Don't think for yourself even if you are the Prez.  Listen to....

[LoricaLady]

Cont. Again, the 1st half hour of this presentation has virtually no science in it. We see the propaganda technique of poisoning the well continuing, along with the propaganda technique of ridicule as attempts are made to eliciit laughter from the audience. None of those things have anything to do with science and logic and in fact detract from them. The sticker shown at 10:27 is right on. There is nothing wrong with it. The truth is they don't want any students to hear any dissent...