Stephen E. Jones

Projects: "Problems of Evolution" (Outline): 2. Philosophy (6): Falsehoods used to support evolution

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"PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTION": 2. PHILOSOPHY (6): FALSEHOODS USED TO SUPPORT EVOLUTION
1.	Evolution and philosophy
	1.	Darwinism is an ideology
2.	Materialism
3.	Naturalism
4.	Uniformitarianism
5.	Reductionism
6.	Scientism
7.	Logical problems
8.	Fallacies used to support evolution
9.	Falsehoods used to support evolution
	1.	"Intelligent design began as an attempt to promote creationism without breaking American laws that keep religion out of schools."

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"PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTION": 2. PHILOSOPHY (1): FALSEHOODS USED TO SUPPORT EVOLUTION
9.	Falsehoods used to support evolution
	1.	Intelligent design began as an attempt to promote creationism without breaking American laws that keep religion out of schools."

"Intelligent design, or ID, began as an attempt to promote creationism without breaking American laws that 
keep religion out of schools."  (Jones S., "The evolution of clots," Daily Telegraph, April 4, 2006) 
Even if this were true, so what? As Chicago University Law Professor Al Alschuler observes, "It seems 
odd to characterize the desire to go far as the law allows as an unlawful motive. People who try to stay 
within the law although they would prefer something else are good citizens." (Alschuler A., "The Dover 
Intelligent Design Decision, Part I: Of Motive, Effect, and History," The Faculty Blog, December 21, 
2005). But in fact it is not true that ID began (and still is) as an attempt by creationists to get around 
the US Supreme Court's rulings ( Arkansas, 1982 and Louisiana , 1987) that Biblical creationism 
breached the US Constitution's First Amendment. The fact is that ID began in 1984 with the 
publication of Thaxton, Bradley and Olsen's "Mystery of Life's Origin," and the founders of ID (e.g. Phillip 
E. Johnson, Michael Behe and Bill Dembski) were not involved in the misguided attempts to mandate the 
teachings of creationism or "creation-science" which was what those trials were about. To be continued. See 
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