Discussion at the Memorial Union: The Poverty of Intelligent Design

This will take place Monday, March 26th at 7 PM in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union at Iowa State University. Per the event announcement:

“Sahotra Sarkar is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, specializing in the history and philosophy of science. He has particular interests in the philosophy of biology and physics. Sahotra Sarkar is the author of the newly released Doubting Darwin? Creationist Designs on Evolution as well as Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction (2005) and Genetics and Reductionism: A Primer (1998). He is also the editor of several books, including the six-volume Science and the Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism (1996) and the two-volume The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia (2006). Sahotra Sarkar serves on the editorial boards of BioScience and Evolutionary Theory. His will discuss his belief that the Intelligent Design movement presents no credible alternative to the received view of evolution and is no intellectual advance over older versions of creationism. The talk will focus on intelligent design arguments that make use of results from computer science and information theory.”

I’ve come to believe that Intelligent Design is just Creationism in new clothes. Like Creationism, it deserves just as much derision. It is not science in any way. This lecture should prove interesting.