Your attention please. We have just caught the Neo-Darwinians with their fins down. The seculars are spending vast sums on trying to find the "others" out there. This has interesting implications for the whole creation-evolution debate thingy. A recent BBC News article reads:
"The array will be able to image large sections of the sky at onceThe switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. Funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the finished array will have 350 six-metre antennas and will be one of the world's largest.
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) will be able to sweep more than one million star systems for radio signals generated by intelligent beings."
Here is the really funny part. After spending countless hours in philosophy classes showing the invalidity of the classically formed "teleological argument" (design demands designer), these seckies are going to sweep the sky with a gazillion dollar gadget to find intelligence by finding radio patterns, as though everything they told us in class was a lie.
Was it? And if so, why worry about intelligence elsewhere, when the decificiency is obviously here, not there. Why assume that EMR patterns imply intelligent life if random processes can mimick the same thing?
Houston, we have a problem. Our Neo-Darwinian space shuttle has just gone up in smoke. The teleological argument is baa-aaaack. Call Washington immediately and get Congress to appropriate another large sum to spend on propaganda in our textbooks. We are going to need it. And may the Pondscum be with you.
Want to see the big alien-finder in Hat Creek, California? (Like we have a shortage of aliens in CA) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4907308.stm
Read original article? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7041183.stm
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