Friday, November 11, 2005
Let's Get Started With the Transcription
RSR -- in the company of some of our more disreputable skeptic friends -- made the trek over to William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri Wednesday to hear Edward O. Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biology professor emeritus at Harvard University lecture on “The Future of Life.”
Wilson's lecture was about biological diversity and ecology. He didn't say much about the controversy over evolution that is roiling the public schools in nearby Kansas.
In a phone interview, however, he did tell Kevin Murphy of the Kansas City Star:
Wilson's lecture was about biological diversity and ecology. He didn't say much about the controversy over evolution that is roiling the public schools in nearby Kansas.
In a phone interview, however, he did tell Kevin Murphy of the Kansas City Star:
“It (intelligent design) hasn’t even begun to imagine how you would take a supernatural force and transcribe it to organic processes,” Wilson said. “It is not science because it has no substance.”
