Wednesday, November 30

Daniel Gilbert on intelligent design

Harvard Psychology Prof Dan Gilbert discusses religion and in so doing debunks intelligent design theory. The article begins as follows:
For as long as pollsters have been asking the question, roughly 90% of Americans have been claiming to believe in God, and a sizeable majority believes that God takes a personal interest in their lives and intervenes to help them. When President Bush said, 'God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did,' most Americans were not alarmed to learn that their leader was receiving orders that no one else could hear. America is an unusually religious nation, but even in the world's least religious nations the majority of people claim to believe in God.
A sad commentary, yes, but an effective way to motivate the article. What is most interesting, however, are Gilbert's descriptions of Psychology experiments to support his arguments. Link

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