Bloggingheads.tv, a very interesting website for dialogue and discussion, has created quite a stir for simply giving airtime to a couple of Intelligent Design proponents. In a ridiculous reaction, a number of evolutionists and atheists have stated that they will no longer frequent the bloggingheads.tv website (here and here). Which is just silly, and shows how much they too have imbibed the spirit of fundamentalism, of course, a fundamentalism of their stripe. Again, these new atheists need to stop the name calling, names like loon, crackpot, and idiot, you know the sort of names that encourage free exchange of ideas and they need to ask, “why do other equally brilliant people draw such different conclusions about the world than I do?”
Anyway, the dialogues are pretty good and touch on the issues of: what is science? what is intelligent design? the history of science, theistic evolution, and much, much more.
Here they are:
- A dialogue between Ron Number and Paul Nelson, “Inside the Mind of a Creationist.”
- A dialogue between John McWhorter and Michael Behe, “Irreducibly Complex Edition.”
What these show, I think, is that there are a lot more folks (and smart folks too!) out there asking these questions.
