12-27-2005, 08:37 PM
I just love the idea that the data *can* be explained by design.
Of course it can. It always can. Postulate an undefined entity interfering in the universe, and you can justify *any* result.
Quantum Mechanics seems confusing? God is moving particles around.
Universe isn't expanding like it's supposed to? Must be Thor.
The Duck-Billed Platypus doesn't make any sense? Clearly, aliens, hooped up on alien funny juice, decided to intervene as part of an elaborate intergalactic bet. (And they, in turn, were created by Ahkenaten.)
It's exactly as helpful an explanation as "who knows," but without the humility.
-Jester
Of course it can. It always can. Postulate an undefined entity interfering in the universe, and you can justify *any* result.
Quantum Mechanics seems confusing? God is moving particles around.
Universe isn't expanding like it's supposed to? Must be Thor.
The Duck-Billed Platypus doesn't make any sense? Clearly, aliens, hooped up on alien funny juice, decided to intervene as part of an elaborate intergalactic bet. (And they, in turn, were created by Ahkenaten.)
It's exactly as helpful an explanation as "who knows," but without the humility.
-Jester