So you're not offering anything concrete, just an offhand remark printed in a much larger article. Okay. Gotcha.
My dinner COULD have been prepared by space aliens. After all, I didn't actually see them make it. But the girl at the drive-thru window that took my money makes me think the answer is probably NO.
I added a link to video of an interview in which Mr. Dembski reveals his belief that "the intelligence behind things" may be of alien origin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j_SD1EgcUI
Well, if this is the theory being ridiculed today, in 10-20 years this is very likely the one to be thought of as nearly absolutely true.
Since ID isn't a "theory" by any and all possible scientific definitions, that is not a worry. If it comes to that, it will be when the USA has secured its status as a 3rd world country by its embrace of willful ignorance and hopefully long, long after I am gone.
Of course, I was being facetious. Although one can't go wrong betting on all the theories being ridiculed today, that is the track record. So you're only right 80% of the time, so what?
Anyway, almost everyone willfully embraces ignorance on some level. That's why we're all here.
Some willful ignorance is worse than others.
But I understood your post -- I was using it as a jump point to make an important point. I truly fear for the future of the USA.
Ah, don't worry, everything works out just the way it should. It is actually impossible to fail, at most only suffering can be prolonged.
The very good news is, in spite of how it looks sometimes, there has never been a better time to be alive and this trend will continue, in spite of relative set backs from time to time.
Even though I worry sometimes, I know there is nothing to worry about ever. One of the tricks is to focus on fulfilling your own goals and desires and worry less about what others appear to be doing. We have very little control over the thoughts and actions of others anyway and sometimes trying to argue the point only cements them in their point of view and if they actually are in error it only prolongs it for them.
Debate seems like something that, instead of trying to win, it should be something to elucidate both points of view. Because everybody holds beliefs and opinions for what seems like a very good reason to them and it is usually an emotion based reason and very few of us can overcome our own emotional perspective via detached and logical argument. One thing studying the Market has taught me is everything is about emotion, even if on some emotional level we like to think our belief is based on empirical fact, it is simply impossible to separate what we think of as "independent reality" from ourself. And most of what we call the world is nothing more than what we expect to see, it is projection. So, since we create it psychologically, it is very difficult to view it in a detached manner. Even our impersonal scientific instruments that can't lie are made by humans so therefore, they are perfectly capable of lying. So if one looks at the world with a worried eye, that worry will be reflected back to the so-called observer. If one devises an impersonal instrument to measure the worry, it will report back things to worry about.
So, one way to absolutely guarantee fewer things to worry about is to worry less while expecting things to work out more. It is really simple and that is one thing about a highly educated population, they expect everything to be complicated and so very seldom stumble upon solutions. People can't just choose to be happy, they have to be led by an elite who propose pointless legislation based on expensive and largely erroneous and over-complicated scientific studies, and then the laws have to be debated and changed from what the erroneous and over-complicated scientific studies said to do in the first place. And then the laws pass and the people are more miserable then when the process started.
This is why it is so often that the children's nursery rhyme can hold more truth then decades long, peer reviewed scientific studies. Just choose to be happy and everything else tends to work itself out.
This is exactly why, the stupider it looks, the more important it probably is. Because it hasn't had all the truth and beauty over-analyzed out of it.
The Universe is nothing more or less than one giant, over-complicated conspiracy theory made to put our attention on the "out there" rather than the inner space where our true power actually resides. And it works so well at what it was designed to do, we all fall for it.
