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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  Are you sure you're not confusing analogy with definition?
Probably because the designer is an unverifiable dismissal of any attempt at explanation. Did those who believe in a designer do anything to try to understand all the evidence that science has accumulated before they felt threatened by science's explanations. Did they even notice what they were seeing, what Darwin revealed to the world? |
I admit, Danny Dennet and his 'BMW supported', we
are a zillion robots speech was confusing. Remember...the one you suggested we all watch? Didn't you watch it?
If he says, as he puts it, 'our bodies
are made up of 100 trillion little robots', well thats what he says. No analogy. He says thats what we
are, made of, robots. What we
are, not what we are like.
TED | Talks | Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds? (video)
Despite the glitz and glamour and seeming profoundness and expertise of Danny's performance, I did pay most attention to his quickly, slyly requesting a handout, and being flat broke, despite the 'BMW support', whilst he simultaneously attacked and mocked ignorant charlotans fleecing others. And his remarkably, disastrously poor health, whilst professing ultimate knowledge of the workings of the robotic human body really captured my attention. But thats just me, as I said, I dont pay much attention to journals and speeches and asserted proofs, just examples.
Here's a new example. Indigenous peoples threatened by science, and being unjust, unfair to science? That's a new, ludicrous angle. They were absolutely correct in feeling threatened. So, science completely dismissing 40,000 - 120,000 years of accumulated belief and example, by slaughtering it, butchering it, becomes that. And Indigenous Peoples butchered the world over becomes , 'Darwin 'revealing knowledge to them'. 'Look behind the bullets, and all will be revealed', so to speak. Thats the only reason you are able to assert your adopted 'proofs'. No one in the land, and many other lands, believed or wanted anything to do with Darwin's theories, or the examples espousing them, and living them. They were rightly appalled at the examples thrust upon them. And Indigenous Peoples made no threats whatsoever against science. Attempts at defending themselves after being attacked, yes, threats no. Poor, hard done by science. There's one indisputable fact about science and its proofs, despite you introducing this ludicrous, new angle. It is adopted here, and many places, because no one had, or has a choice. It had, and has nothing whatsoever to do with proof, but all to do with science dismissing all that chose otherwise, and using unbelievable brute, barbaric force to enforce the dismissal, and then strut around parading their 'proof'.