Intelligent Design

Here at the U of MN we are spectators to a one sided fight. Chris Macosko, a Minnesota chemical engineering professor and a public Christian, does not apologize for his thoughts about intelligent design. He does not allow the U to intimidate him back from his belief. He also makes it plain that there is more to science than the evolutionists admit. He teaches a course called, "Origins: By Chance Or Design" Mostly, he just shows the weaknesses in Darwinism.

But this makes another professor at the Universities Morris branch bristle. P.Z. Myers of the Morris Biology Department cannot stand this sort of talk. It must make his ears bleed or something because his reaction to Chris Macosko is way over the top. Maybe he is just using the forthrightness of Mr. Macosko to leapfrog over in his ambition to be the worlds greatest something or the other. Maybe his ambition does not allow others to think differently than himself. Maybe he is just another alpha male who can't help but fight with people he perceives as weaker than he is. i.e. Christians. But I have three words for him..."Let it go. "
You will not catch the disease you so greatly fear.

The whole scientific reaction to Intelligent Design is hard for me to understand. It is as dogmatic, entrenched, and knee jerk as the stereotype of Christian dogmatism was at the Skopes trial. By the simple device of requiring "naturalistic" explanations, all other methods are judged as being "not scientific." Then the hunt and kill begins. P.Z. has called for the university to censure Macosko.

Chris Macosko is a great man. He is loving, kind, reasonable, and is not an air headed space cadet. He doesn't deserve such contempt. Hey P.Z., find something else to do. I thought you atheist guys were all for "free speech" and "open minds."

Here is the article that set me off.