Ethics

Interview with Ken Miller

By Ed Brayton

Publisher's Weekly has a brief interview with Ken Miller that is worth reading. I especially like this answer to the false dichotomy of ID:

When you look at the arguments that are raised for ID, no one says: here's the fingerprint of the designer or here we can see design taking place. Rather, the argument is, we see a feature of a biological system that evolution couldn't have produced. Therefore something else must have made it. Now that's equivalent to saying, let's suppose, you think the moon is made of granite and I think it's made of green cheese. And we get soil samples back from the moon, and you know what? They're not made of granite. So I say, great, that's evidence for the green cheese theory. Well, it's not. It's an entirely negative argument.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 03, 2008 (boomark / email).