To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and thus by a form of design). Alternatively, it's possible that the similarities are not due to descent at all but result from a similarity of conception, just as designed objects like your TV, radio, and computer share common components because designers frequently recycle ideas and parts. Teasing apart the effects of intelligent and natural causation is one of the key questions confronting a design-theoretic research program. Unlike Darwinism, therefore, intelligent design has no immediate and easy answer to the question of common descent.
Darwinists necessarily see this as a bad thing and as a regression to ignorance. From the design theorists' perspective, however, frank admissions of ignorance are much to be preferred to overconfident claims to knowledge that in the end cannot be adequately justified. Despite advertisements to the contrary, science is not a juggernaut that relentlessly pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. Rather, science is an interconnected web of theoretical and factual claims about the world that are constantly being revised and for which changes in one portion of the web can induce radical changes in another. In particular, science regularly confronts the problem of having to retract claims that it once confidently asserted.
Tag: science biology ignorance evolution interpretation evidence darwinism intelligent-design similarities id conclusions universal-common-descent origin-of-life homology knowldge similarity
Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)
Neil GaimanTag: lives peas snowflakes similarity
There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach out to each other. If we allow ourselves and everyone else the freedom to fully individuate as spiritual beings in human form, there will be no need for us to be forced by worldly circumstances to take hands and stand together. Our souls will automatically want to flock together, like moths to the flame of our shared Divinity, yet each with wings covered in the glimmering colors and unique patterns of our individual human expression.
Anthon St. MaartenTag: freedom cooperation soul faith individualism prejudice intolerance freedom-of-choice unity follow-your-bliss self-expression community beliefs uniqueness freedom-of-religion nations groupthink divinity group-think spiritual-life individuation alike coercion sameness divinity-within follow-your-dreams similarity indentity indivuality
There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt.
Criss JamiTag: fear morality difference ignorance tolerance bigotry similarity same
this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
G.K. ChestertonTag: science history religion conflict statement similarity
One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.
Em BaileyTag: metaphor sameness similarity
Physical attraction did its part to glue them together, but something stronger than sexual attraction sealed the bond. When men and women grow apart, it is for the same reason they are drawn together; because they are finally, inherently too different. Friendships among women, on the other hand, were burdened by similarity.
Galt NiederhofferTag: friendship men women different together bond apart glue stronger similarity drawn sexual-attraction burdened physical-attraction
I pray for the kids in the suburbs… I pray that one day, we’ll all graduate from similarity.
J. MerridewTag: suburbs similarity
..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark,
'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that moment he did not yet know how right he was.
Tag: difference jose-saramago similarity all-the-names
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