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Seven More Views on Intelligent Design

SEP 01, 2002

DOI: 10.1063/1.4796848

Megan Donahue

After I read the Opinions by Adrian Melott and Mano Singham, it occurred to me that ID is not only bad science but it’s bad religion too. Such a “god of the gaps” as postulated by ID only becomes smaller with time as science moves on and solves mysteries that were formerly “explained” as miracles. Unfortunately, the proponents of ID blur the distinction between logos and mythos, 1 between asking how we came to be and why we came to be. Arguably, humans need both logos and mythos to make sense of the world; both questions deserve our profound attention.

References

  1. 1. K. Armstrong, The Battle for God, Ballantine, New York (2001).

More about the Authors

Megan Donahue. (donahue@stsci.edu) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, US .

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Volume 55, Number 9

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