O Dr. Marcos N. Berlin, professor da Unicamp, e membro do NBDI, teve sua palestra sobre Design Inteligente aprovada e depois cancelada sob a alegação esfarrapada de que “organizações científicas americanas já decidiram que o Design Inteligente é religião”. O Dr. Eberlin ia apresentar sua palestra na comemoração dos 60 anos da SBPC que está sendo realizada na Unicamp onde ele leciona e é um dos luminares da ciência brasileira.
Agora, vem Bradley Monton, professor de Filosofia da Universidade do Colorado, Boulder, ateu, escreveu um livro (ainda não publicado) sobre o Design Inteligente.
Eu espero que ele encontre uma editora interessada no manuscrito dele.
The doctrine of intelligent design has been maligned by atheists, but even though I'm an atheist, I'm of the opinion that the arguments for intelligent design are stronger than most realize. The goal of this book is to try to get people to take intelligent design seriously. I maintain that it is legitimate to view intelligent design as science, that there are somewhat plausible arguments for the existence of a cosmic designer, and that intelligent design should be taught in public school science classes.
The book is written in such a way that it will have appeal to both non-academics and fellow professors. I anticipate that both proponents and opponents of intelligent design would be interested in reading it. I will be agreeing with a lot of what intelligent design proponents say — I'm trying to be intellectually honest and give the proponents credit wherever credit is due. By rejecting the fallacious arguments against intelligent design, I am helping everyone to understand the issues and arguments more clearly. In the long run, this is what will lend the most support to the cause of reason.
As far as I know, no one has published a book like this, or is even in the process of writing one. There is a fair amount of literature nowadays on atheism vs. theism, and the merits of intelligent design, but that literature has become like a war between two camps, and the point of my book is to transcend that.
Quem diria, já não bastava o David Berlinski, judeu agnóstico, ser proponente e defensor da teoria do Design Inteligente, e agora aparece justamente um ateu?
Alô SBPC, de onde foi que vocês tiraram a idéia de que a teoria do Design Inteligente é religião e não é ciência? A tese de design inteligente é muito antiga. Remonta aos filósofos gregos pagãos.