Marsha and Platt --
[Platt]:
The Darwinists are hard pressed to explain hobbits. The theory is now challenged from within. Wonders never cease.
[Marsha]:
Intelligent Design is not credible science. My concern is that science is blindly followed without an understanding of its danger points, and I am relieved that it is being challenged. It should be properly evaluated and monitored by all citizens.
Intelligent Design is not Science at all. It is an intellectual perspective of reality based on man's sensibility to symmetry and order. When we say that the universe is intelligently designed, by whose "intelligence" are we judging its design? Human beings are rational creatures who impute their own intelligence to the objective world because of its value (high-quality) to them.
The "wonder" is that you don't realize scientific anomalies like the newly discovered hobbit skeletons are constantly being challenged. The method of Science is: investigate - test - confirm. When you read the entire article, you see that paleontologists, biologists, and archeologists are currently in the "testing phase", ruling out possible explanations, such as early migration of a more primitive species, reversion to an ancestral lineage, genetic mutations or pathological disorders, or island dwarfing. Eventually they will have the evidence they need to confirm a conclusion. Until then, unlike armchair speculators and journalists, they withhold any official pronouncement.
As Stony Brook's anatomist, speaking for the research team, said, their investigation has entered "a period of wait and see. ...Someday people [will ask], why was everyone so puzzled back then - it's plain to see where the little people of Flores came from." That's the way Science works. If Science depended on the "evaluation and monitoring" of uninformed citizens, reaching objective conclusions would be about as rare as it is on this forum.
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