More James Barham introduces James Shapiro (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, August 17, 2015, 23:26 (3168 days ago) @ David Turell

A comment by Barham concerning unanswered questions raised by Shapiro:-http://jamesabarham.com/my-blog/35-reply-to-james-shapiro-further-thoughts-on-natural-genetic-engineering-and-vitalism-"But Darwinism has never been just another scientific theory. It has always been dear to its proponents as a complete metaphysical system. All along, Darwinists have seen it as their task to "reduce" the manifest teleological and normative characteristics of life to mechanical interactions. That is what the theory of natural selection is all about.-"Therefore, Shapiro is being a bit ingenuous if he thinks he can simply forswear the philosophical implications of his position as none of his responsibility. He is tangled up with them, whether he likes it or not.-"Either cells are machines made of inherently inert parts cobbled together by natural selection, or they are . . . something else. No one who denies the first alternative should be surprised if he is asked what that "something else" could possibly be.

"Besides, if we don't at least ask that question, how will we ever make any progress towards answering it? "-Comment: And, of course, for me that 'something else' is intelligent information imbued in organisms by God.