A War on Science

[Theb]

BBC Horizon: A War on Science

Overall I think it's a good presentation. Maybe a little bit rushed. It made me glad I live on the west coast.
I think irreducible complexity is the most interesting idea raised. It would be really interesting to see more examples, or at least an example more substantial than 20% of the Flagellum. It seemed kind of odd to me that abiogenesis wasn't mentioned at all, but I guess that's part of fitting the debate into one show.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Irreducible complexity is a red herring anyway. An assumption is made that the individual parts of a system are of no value alone. Since we can not know of the exact envirnment at the time they were developed, or what intermediate stages comprised that development, we cannot actually access their value to the organism. With a little imagination, it is just as easy to formulate senerios where these parts, at some stage, offered an advantage to the organism as it is to dismiss them. To claim with certainty that no advantage was ever present is foolish and arrogant.

 

[Strk]

Google seems to have taken down your video.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: Strk
Google seems to have taken down your video.

Are you trying to say that's proof of intelligent design?

 

[OrByte]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

Originally posted by: Strk
Google seems to have taken down your video.

Are you trying to say that's proof of intelligent design?

Google sure is aweful intelligent.

is it time to genuflect now?

 

[gimpsoft]

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=A+War+on+Science
which one is it

 

[Mark R]

This one

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: Mark R
This one

None of the points raised in the OP appear in that 7 min version.

 

[Mark R]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

Originally posted by: Mark R
This one

None of the points raised in the OP appear in that 7 min version.

True,

It's just unfortunate that the next 53 minutes were cut off - but that is the correct show.

If you want the whole show, then uknova will sort you out.