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Kako se odnositi prema rastu popularnosti "intelligent designa"
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Poslao/poslala: Dejan Vinković
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2005.04.28. 22:58
"The idea of intelligent design is being promoted in schools and universities in the United States and Europe. Rather than ignoring it, scientists need to understand its appeal and help students recognize the alternatives."
Tako pocinje
editorial novog broja NATURE-a. Iako pseudoznamstveno vrlo slican sveprisutnom kreacionizmu, intelligent design (ID) ima drugaciju strategiju: koristenje znanstvene retorike, pa cak i pokusavanje objavljivanja u znanstvenim casopisima, bez pozivanja na neku konkretnu religiju.
Prema
vlastitoj definiciji, "Intelligent Design is an intellectual movement that includes a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes and that challenges naturalistic explanations of origins which currently drive science education and research".
Ali u borbi protiv sirenje takvih pseudoznanosti treba biti oprezan: "'Darwin versus design' debates.... tend to be well attended, but don't change many minds". Uspjesnijim se pokazuje naprosto iznosenje cinjenica, iz kojih publika onda sama moze donositi zakljucke.
Takodjer, javni dijalog o odnosu znanosti i religije
(poput
interviewa akademika Paara u Glasu Koncila)
moze ukazati kako je pozivanje na pseudoznanost u religiji naprosto nepotrebno.
Ovdje prenosim editorial iz NATUREa u cjelosti. Povod tom tekstu je clanak u NATURE-u koji ukazuje na porast utjecaja ID-a na sveucilisne studente u americi (Intelligent design: Who has designs on your students' minds?. Iz toga clanka sam izdvojio grafikon koji pokazuje kao tinejdjeri dozivljavjau evoluciju, te kako se to mijenja kod ljudi razlicitog nivoa zavrsenog obrazovanja.
Glavna poruka dosadasnjeg "razvoja dogadjaja" je da direktne rasprave "za ili protiv" ne urode plodom jer se radi o dubokim osjecajima. Pojedinac mora sam doci do istine, i za to mu je potrebno podastrijeti informacije, a ne uvjerenja. Kao primjer vrlo dobrog teksta o evoluciji uocio sam clanak iz National Geographic-a "Je li Darwin pogriješio?" (bilo bi dobro da takvi clanci budu kompletno dostupni on-line). Opsirnija rasprava o tome gdje su znanstvene pogreske ID-a mozete naci
ovdje.
Nature 434, 1053 (28 April 2005) | doi: 10.1038/4341053a
Dealing with design
Abstract
The idea of intelligent design is being promoted in schools and universities in the United States and Europe. Rather than ignoring it, scientists need to understand its appeal and help students recognize the alternatives.
Scientists tend to tune out when they hear the words 'intelligent design'. The concept, which endeavours to show God's hand shaping the course of evolution, is being promoted in parts of Europe and, more significantly, has recently become popular among Christian fundamentalists who want religion taught in US secondary schools. To most researchers it sounds like politics rather than science, and like someone else's problem.
Mixing as it does the supernatural with scientific doctrine, the concept is a throwback to the days when natural philosophers pursued pseudoscientific disciplines such as alchemy. But the scientific community should not ignore it. As the article on page 1062 reveals, the concept is gaining popularity on US college campuses.
That is because many of the students taught in introductory biology classes hold religious beliefs that conflict, at least on the face of things, with Darwin's framework. Professors rarely address the conflicts between faith and science in lectures, and students are drawn to intelligent design as a way of reconciling their beliefs with their interest in science. In doing so, they are helping it to gain a small, but firm, foothold on campuses around the country.
This is bad news for researchers. Unlike 'creation science', which uses the Bible as its guide, intelligent design tries to use scientific methods to find evidence of God in nature. This approach makes it less theologically heavy-handed than its predecessor, but it also poses a threat to the very core of scientific reason. Most contemporary researchers believe that it is better to keep science and theology firmly separated. Most theologians would agree: intelligent design is not a part of Catholic doctrine, for example.
So what can scientists do to counter the appeal of intelligent design? The concept's advocates frequently approach researchers with offers of campus-wide 'Darwin versus design' debates. Such events tend to be well attended, but don't change many minds. Furthermore, ill-prepared scientific lectures can sometimes lack the superficial impact of design advocates' carefully crafted talking points.
Scientists know that natural selection can explain the awe-inspiring complexities of organisms, and should be prepared to explain how. But attacking or dismissing intelligent design is likely to aggravate the rift between science and faith that causes students to become interested in intelligent design in the first place.
Scientists would do better to offer some constructive thoughts of their own. For religious scientists, this may involve taking the time to talk to students about how they personally reconcile their beliefs with their research. Secular researchers should talk to others in order to understand how faiths have come to terms with science. All scientists whose classes are faced with such concerns should familiarize themselves with some basic arguments as to why evolution, cosmology and geology are not competing with religion. When they walk into the lecture hall, they should be prepared to talk about what science can and cannot do, and how it fits in with different religious beliefs.
Some will be troubled by the suggestion that they discuss these issues in the classroom. Indeed, it is not the job of a science teacher to meddle with the way their students are brought up or to attack their core personal beliefs. Rather, the goal should be to point to options other than intelligent design for reconciling science and belief.
Even if they manage to sway just a few students, researchers in the United States can have a disproportionate effect on the national debate over science in the classroom. Students often return to their home communities and become teachers, doctors and engineers. It is as local community leaders that those students will become invaluable allies when more conservative religious groups try to halt the teaching of scientific theories in schools.
 (grafikon prenesen iz
Nature 434, 1062-1065, "Intelligent design: Who has designs on your students' minds?"
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