POTM nomination: the Dead ID Scetch
- From: "Carsten Troelsgaard" <carsten.troelsgaard@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:57:37 +0100
Honestly cut'n pasted from Talk.Origins, under the same heading.
Enjoy
Carsten
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"Beagle" <davidlongh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> But if you're going to make these little sketches up, why not be a bit
> more entertaining? You know, returning a dead parrot to a 'boutique'
> and claiming it couldn't possibly evolved from bleedin' dinosaurs...
>
Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with
it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's
what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the
controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when
I see
one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated.
Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a
non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics. This
'theory' makes no predictions; has no contribution to make beyond
extended
polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks the 'Designer'
was.
Bereft of all logical and epistemological credibility, it has no
scientific
status! If certain right-wing and fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't
hit
upon it as a way of opposing decades of uncomfortable scientific and
social
progress, it'd be pushing up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked
the
waste-paper bucket. THIS IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry,
squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and
biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of observed
homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
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Mich.
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