Darel R. Finley
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posted 23. October 2005 17:35
In the interest of cutting through many more months or even years of agent/publisher red-tape just to get my book seen by one or two persons, I have decided to release "Mechanism: The Ugly Truth That Nobody Wants To Know" in PDF format on the internet. Hopefully, its free availability as PDF will not kill its prospects for hard-copy publication.
In it, I arrive at these conclusions:
* Beauty and truth are not fundamentally connected; in fact they are almost opposites.
* Johnson, Behe, and Dembski are passively reinforcing the dichotomy of Christianity vs. materialistic evolution.
* "Theodicy" and other defenses against dysteleology become useless and unnecessary when ID is severed from religion.
* The purpose of this life is to have a fun adventure, and our designers put us here expressly for that reason. Dembski avoids that conclusion by stopping his inference-to-the-best-explanation just after it neutralizes Darwinism.
* Fear of murder lies at the root of the Darwin/religion dichotomy, along with the fear of what our government must do to protect us from future threats.
* The key characteristic of intelligences is their ability to recognize specifications -- not their "free will" to choose.
* The Dawkins/Dennett assertion that scientific explanations must be reductive is correct but missapplied, and is inadequately addressed by Dembski and Behe.
* The fields of cosmology and quantum physics are as badly infected with magical principles as is the field of biology.
* Johnson failed to succesfully tackle the issue of self-reference is his criticisms of John Searle and Stephen Hawking. The true nature of self-reference renders the puzzle of free will essentially moot.
* The capitalist-socialist struggle is in permanent stalement, and DNA cleanup is the only way out.
* We may be headed to a female-controlled society in the near future.
* The concept of morality is bankrupt in today's high-tech climate, and only laws, backed by technological solutions, can maintain order and safety.
* Humanity is in no significant danger of extinction.
Mass distribution is prohibited, but anyone may download and read the PDF at this page: http://alienryderflex.com/mechanism
Criticisms and analyses are welcome.
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