Science and Religion

I am not sure what is going on here, but it's well done.

Scientists are well aware that the majority of the research papers they publish in scientific journals, usually are only read by a few colleagues and fellow specialists in the area. Thus scientists are mostly pleased when their papers reach a wider audience. However, there are situations where this does not fully apply.

I had a review paper about biomimetics and my doctoral research on locomotion in ragworms published in the journal Naturwisseschaften in July. I have just discovered that this paper has been discussed and commented upon in a blog about intelligent design (ID, the idea that living things are so complex and perfectly designed that they cannot have arisen by a random evolutionary process. Instead there must be some non-defined intelligent designer, i.e. God, behind).

The following thoughts are concerned with the second part of Dawkins' TV-series 'The root of all Evil?' You will find the video beneath. The thoughs are also presented in random order, maybe I will have time to systematize all of this some day.

A large part of this second TV-program consists of criticism of the Old Testament, some of it rather anachronistic, but some of it justified since there are people who still take all parts of the Old Testament very seriously and literally. I have no beef with Dawkins on most of these issues.

My blog on Evolution and ID has created a lot of feedback given through the contact form.

I will not be able to answer all the letters.

I have created a group called Science and Religion in which all further discussion and examination will take place.

I do not want the subject to clutter the front page for people who are not interested in the subject.