Orson Scott Card Strikes (out) Again

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Orson writes an Op Ed again. This time on Intelligent Design.

Lame. He calls out the fallacies of the Darwinists by listing arguments that those who support evolution do not make. Card is a big fan of making the common man believe that there are elitist smart people out there who want the stupid people (if you're not smart, what are you?) believe that evolution is the correct theory just because we say so. However, supporters of Intelligent Design like to use bad arguments and bad science on the less intelligent person, and that seems more desirable because it can be explained in lay terms. Or something like that.

But, I must note that Card's point #5 does say: "They are very careful not to specify who or what the Intelligent Designer might be. So they are not advocating for any particular religion, or any religion at all. For all anyone knows, the supposed Intelligent Designers might be an alien species of mortal, ungodlike beings."

So, given that, have you accepted the Flying Spaghetti Monster as your personal Pasta and Sav(i)or?

Thanks to imlac for pissing me off with the Card link.

Comments

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I'm not saying that you have to believe it, but you should understand their viewpoint.

To be perfectly clear, I'm saying that I believe evolution and natural selection to be true, but I do admit there is a possibility that some higher force put the rules of evolution and natural selection in place in the very beginning. From what I understand, intelligent designers believe that evolution is crap and that everything you see is as intended.