{"id":66285,"date":"2018-10-13T13:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=66285"},"modified":"2018-10-13T13:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:15:28","slug":"intelligent-design-wins-another-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/10\/intelligent-design-wins-another-nobel-prize.html","title":{"rendered":"“Intelligent Design Wins\u00a0Another\u00a0Nobel Prize”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Kolob Canyon, in Zion National Park, between St. George and Cedar City, Utah
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LOL. \u00a0That blog title will work like catnip on a few of my online critics.<\/p>\n

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Fairly often, somebody on the internet of whom I\u2019ve never heard will confidently and sneeringly observe that, as a certified religious fanatic and a demonstrable fundamentalist loon, I reject evolution. \u00a0Sometimes, when I gently respond that I don\u2019t<\/em> actually deny evolution,\u00a0the person in question will then quickly suggest that nothing that I might say about my beliefs on the topic should be trusted. \u00a0I reject evolution, and that\u2019s that. \u00a0No matter what I say or what I claim to believe. \u00a0I\u2019m too dishonest to be permitted to speak for myself. \u00a0And, for good measure, I believe that the earth is only about six or seven thousand years old \u2014 something that, so far as I can recall, I never believed even when I was a child. \u00a0(I loved dinosaurs then, and studied them a lot.)<\/p>\n

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When, years ago, I replied with a tinge of exasperation to a fellow who was insisting online that I am a young-earth creationist that there was almost certainly nobody on the planet better equipped to know what I believe than I am, and that I would really appreciate being conceded the right to speak for myself, he responded quite huffily and (to my lasting astonishment) with entire seriousness: \u00a0No, he said, I understand you better than you understand yourself. \u00a0He was, by the way, a complete stranger to me, as far as I know. \u00a0He was posting anonymously, and he never even suggested that we had ever met.<\/p>\n

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A few days ago, I posted an entry here about the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry that was recently awarded to a trio of two American scientists and a British researcher:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u201cDirected Evolution\u201d and the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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One of my more zany and intellectually sloppy perpetual critics wondered, when that Prize was announced, whether I would try to avoid talking about it \u2014 because, you see, I deny evolution. \u00a0(Or something like that.) \u00a0Curiously, I\u2019ve noticed that, in the intervening time since I commented on it, he\u2019s had nothing more to say on the subject.<\/p>\n

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Funny, that.<\/p>\n

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Here are five more links to articles responding to that Nobel Prize:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWord Games with Evolutionists\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cNobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s Not \u201cEvolution\u201d \u2014 A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cIntelligent Design Wins\u00a0Another<\/i>\u00a0Nobel Prize\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cHow the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Harnessed Intelligent Design\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Although there are places on the internet where it\u2019s quite confidently assumed that I\u2019m a fully committed devotee of \u201cIntelligent Design,\u201d I haven\u2019t yet actually said where I come down on the issues that it addresses, nor indicated what use I\u2019m likely to eventually make of the reading I\u2019ve been doing on the subject. \u00a0(I have a very specific purpose, of which I\u2019ve said nothing to this point.) \u00a0I remain, however, very interested and hugely entertained by the debates that it engenders. \u00a0And I\u2019m amused by the sometimes angry and insulting comments that are made about me when it\u2019s discovered that I\u2019ve been reading the works of heretics. \u00a0Few medieval inquisitors, I suspect, were more hypersensitive to the slightest whiff of unorthodoxy than are some of the folks who patrol my blog regarding this subject.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Cedar City, Utah<\/p>\n

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