Abstract
Sandstrom concludes by extending an olive branch to people in the different camps of evolution, divine Creation and Intelligent Design. He urges evolutionists to recognise the limits of naturalistic evolutionary theory and to resist turning it into an ideology. He shows how Intelligent Design Theory has become an ideology by insisting on its natural scientific legitimacy, when in fact it serves more accurately as a feature of science, philosophy and theology/worldview conversation. Young Earth Creationism is a view that cannot be taken seriously, whereas religious persons can honourably accept divine Creation, though not as a scientific theory. Human Extension cuts through the controversy on all sides and invites advocates of evolution, divine Creation and ID to consider its new contribution as social epistemology.
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‘After all, the cultivated person’s first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia’ (Umberto Eco, Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, 1998).
Richard Bube (1971). ‘We Believe in Creation.’ Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, 23:121–122. (http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1971/JASA12–71Bube.html)
‘[I]ntelligent design is just the Logos theology of John’s Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory’ (William Dembski, edited with James M. Kushiner, Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2001: 192).
‘Easily the biggest challenge facing the ID community is to develop a full-fledged theory of biological design. We don’t have such a theory right now, and that’s a problem. Without a theory, it’s very hard to know where to direct your research focus. Right now, we’ve got a bag of powerful intuitions, and a handful of notions such as “irreducible complexity” and “specified complexity” — but, as yet, no general theory of biological design’ (Paul Nelson, ‘The Measure of Design’ Touchstone, 2004). (http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=17-06-060-i)
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Sandstrom, G. (2014). Conclusions: Elevating Human Extension. In: Human Extension: An Alternative to Evolutionism, Creationism and Intelligent Design. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464897_6
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