2 de março de 2009

ID, baby



Just a quick note here, talking about Intelligent Design. 
What a superb excerpt, concise, so simple and reasonable yet reputedly polemical: 

"Proponents of ID frequently lament the scientific claim that humans are the product of purely material forces. At the same time, they never define how non-material forces might work. I have yet to find a definition that characterises non-materialism by what it is, rather than by what it is not."

(by Amanda Gefter, from http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126975.800-how-to-spot-a-hidden-religious-agenda.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news )

New Scientist is my favorite magazine around here, along with Mojo.