Creationism debate

Rev Hellfire

Just saw this on the register.

Tomorrow evening sees a high-profile counter-punch by the Royal Society against creationists. Leading genetics professor Steve Jones will deliver an unambiguous defence of Darwin's theory, “Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right” at the learned society's London HQ.

Link to article

Link to a webcast of the debate.

robindch

> Leading genetics professor Steve Jones will deliver an unambiguous
> defence of Darwin's theory

Jones -- who's a good speaker -- fired off an opening salvo a few days back in the Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml;jsessionid=0LTTG3UE3K3N1QFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/connected/2006/04/04/ecclots04.xml&sSheet=/connected/2006/04/04/ixconnrite.html

The ID crew, to use Darwin's own phrase, "look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond [their] comprehension". The first Hawaiians to cast eyes on Europeans were so astonished by their great vessels that they thought their builders to be gods. The ID argument is just the same. It is the logic of ignorance, idleness and incuriosity: I am very smart, even I do not understand this, so why bother to explain it except by bringing in God (if necessary under an alias)?

Scientists, unlike creationists, do not know everything, but as they learn more, every such claim has been rubbished. Evolution is not mocked but glorified by life's intricacy. ID is a bad idea, but has generated lots of good research, all of which shows how inane it is.

...however, I'm sure one rumbling, groaning interminable debate on cretinism over in the christianity forum is enough!

Dades

Is there actually going to be a debate, or just a lecture?
i.e. Will there be microphones given to hear creationist rebuttals?

Should be interesting though.