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Shermer vs. Dembski

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Wonko the Sane:
Skeptic vs. The Discovery Institute

I stumbled onto this podcast of a evolution vs. ID debate on www.skeptic.com


--- Quote from: "Blurb from the site" ---Michael Shermer goes head to head with noted Intelligent Design theorist William Dembski, fellow of the Discovery Institute. The devout and the heretical alike will gain insight from this fascinating interview, brought to you from AudioMartini.
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Gilnei:
It's a very nice discussion. And I can't deny that it's very funny to hear Dembski trying to dissociate himself from the Discovery Institute. =]

geoffI:
I enjoyed the debate and it was very civil. The only problem I had was that to the uninitiated, it really does sound like two opposite  yet equal sides of a scientific debate.

Shermer did well on the philisophical issues (especially the ID leading to intelligent alien part) but he's really not qualified to deal with the science.

He could have brought up a signficant amount of molecular level stuff to trash Demski's arguments.

I was somewhat disappointed in that one regard.  

What do you think?

Leigh:
Shermer was a little quiet wasn't he.
But I did get the feeling that the host was looking forward to throwing out that 'Where's the science' question to Dembski.
That kind of made up for it.

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