The Design Paradigm

September 26, 2006

well…

Filed under: Cornell, Evolution, Intelligent design, Education by Freawaru

Midterm papers and problem sets take precedence, so I’m officially giving up on writing those two long posts– on our summer and on our upcoming semester. Suffice it to say we had a wonderful time in the Evolution & Design class. We managed to cover a great deal of ground and consider many issues; and I think demonstrated unequivocally that a course on intelligent design is fully in line with what the University– and Cornell in particular– is about, and need not equal indoctrination from one side or other.

Things are busy now as we go into round one of prelims, but we’re stealing little bits of time to think and read about intelligent design, and every so often to talk about it. We meet every week for discussions– 7 pm Wednesdays, at the Music Room in Willard Straight Hall– and so far have looked at irreducible complexity and specified complexity. This Wednesday we’re going to be discussing testability again, especially as it applies to this debate.

There’ll be a student debate soon as well, but details of that are still to be determined.

 

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  1. So nice to hear from you all. Greetings from the 4 IDEA chapters in Virginia!

    Comment by Salvador T. Cordova — September 30, 2006 @ 4:39 pm

  2. Sorry I can’t make it to meetings yet, but I’m sure they’re as much fun as we had this summer. Greetings to all!
    –Allen

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    Comment by Allen MacNeill — October 1, 2006 @ 3:29 am

  3. Thanks (to both of you!) And Salvador, return our greetings to the Virginia IDEA Clubs.

    Comment by Freawaru — October 3, 2006 @ 11:28 pm

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