Seattle – Richard Dawkins, the world’s leading public spokesman for Darwinian evolution and an advocate of the “new atheism,” has refused to debate Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, a prominent advocate of intelligent design and the author of the acclaimed Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design.
“Richard Dawkins claims that the appearance of design in biology is an illusion and claims to have refuted the case for intelligent design,” says Dr. Meyer who received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge in England.
“But Dawkins assiduously avoids addressing the key evidence for intelligent design and won’t debate its leading proponents,” adds Dr. Meyer. “Dawkins says that there is no evidence for intelligent design in life, and yet he also acknowledges that neither he nor anyone else has an evolutionary explanation for the origin of the first living cell. We know now even the simplest forms of life are chock-full of digital code, complex information processing systems and other exquisite forms of nanotechnology.”
In Signature in the Cell, Dr. Meyer shows that the digital code embedded in DNA points powerfully to a designing intelligence and helps unravel a mystery that Darwin did not address: how did the very first life begin?
Signature in the Cell has just entered its third printing according to publisher HarperOne, an imprint of Harper Collins, and has been endorsed by scientists around the world, including leading British geneticist Dr. Norman Nevin, Alastair Noble, Ph.D. chemistry, formerly Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools for Science, Scotland, and Dr. Philip Skell, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Meyer challenged Dawkins to a debate when he saw that their speaking tours would cross paths this fall in Seattle and New York. Dawkins declined through his publicists, saying he does not debate “creationists.”
“Dawkins’ response is disingenuous,” said Meyer. “Creationists believe the earth is 10,000 years old and use the Bible as the basis for their views on the origins of life. I don’t think the earth is 10,000 years old and my case for intelligent design is based on scientific evidence.”
According to Discovery Institute, where Dr. Meyer directs the Center for Science & Culture, the debate challenge is a standing invitation for any time and place that is mutually agreeable to both participants.
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Posted by Anika Smith on October 6, 2009 12:56 PM | Permalink
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COMENTÁRIO IMPERTINENTE DESTE BLOGGER:
Ué, o fato, Fato, FATO da evolução não é um fato científico corroborado assim como a lei da gravidade? Este novo livro de Dawkins não é um livro sobre evidências a favor do fato, Fato, FATO da evolução?
Dawkins deve ter lido o livro Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligente Design, e se viu de calças curtas de argumentos para um debate público com Steve Meyer. A desculpa esfarrapada de Dawkins de que não debate criacionistas (e por tabela os teóricos e proponentes do Design Inteligente) é prova de sua incapacidade científica de apresentar um caso a favor da evolução ouvindo contrapontos científicos. Quando foi mesmo que Dawkins publicou seu último artigo com revisão por pares???
Richard Dawkins, quem diria, fugiu do debate com Steve Meyer. Com defensores assim, Darwin está perdido. Traduzindo em graúdos: com defensores assim, Darwin nem precisa de críticos e oponentes!
Gente, mas Dawkins não foi nomeado recentemente "o rottweiler de Darwin"? Com esta covardia, ele está parecendo mais um cachorrinho da raça Shih Tzu!
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