User:JosephCCampana

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  • ID researcher
  • Front-loader (very tentatively)
  • Teleological Evolutionist
  • Parareductionist
  • Inquirist
  • Omni-skeptic
  • Epistemologist
  • Philologist
  • Teleologist
  • Natural Philosopher
  • Neo-Platonist
  • Idealist
  • von Hildebrandean
  • Formalist
  • Big Bangist
  • Baconist(Roger and Francis)
  • Actualist
  • Scientific Instrumentalist
  • Holist
  • Structuralist
  • Bonaventurian
  • Scotist
  • Quasi-Aristotelian
  • Augustinian
  • Non-Thomist(usually)
  • Realist
  • Triarchist
  • Quasi-Hylomorphist
  • Socratic
Joey with Jill
Joey with Jill

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  • Evidence concerning anti-teleological and teleological claims: evidential holes vs. evidential barriers, and evidential barriers vs. evidential support

My favorite quotes

All of these quotes relate in some way to my approach to founding and administering ReseachID.org.

Science

  • Every new theory is born refuted.
- Steve Fuller
  • "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
- Nikola Tesla
  • "If you assume your hypothesis is true before you experiment, you are no longer a scientist."
- Unknown
  • "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
- Stephen Jay Gould

Biology

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."

-- Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975), Transcribed from The American Biology Teacher, March 1973 (35:125-129)

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of the evidence."

-- Paul Nelson

"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of the microscope."

-- Joseph C. Campana

Knowledge

  • A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Bertrand Russell
  • Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides
  • Everyone holds an opinion, but a lover of knowledge cannot let a mere opinion hold him.
- Joseph C. Campana
  • You can learn a lot about the truth, by learning what it is not.
- Joseph C. Campana
  • It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair

Going against the grain

  • Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your

character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

- John Wooden
  • If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
  • When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon
  • Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison
  • Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
  • I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton
  • If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov
  • Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Samuel Johnson
  • I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage
  • Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- GM Trevelyan
  • Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
  • The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best, and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

Optimism

  • "For myself I am an optimist, it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
  • "An optimist is the human personification of spring."
- Susan J. Bissonette
  • "The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more."
- Ed Parker
  • "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
- Samuel Johnson

Academic freedom

Campana's view regarding the current status of academic freedom and the Darwinian status quo:

  • "...subjection of our reason to the whims of intellectual fashion."
- Paolo Carroza, February 14th issue of the Notre Dame Observer

Press coverage of ID

My view regarding press coverage of intelligent design:

  • "Let's have some new cliches."
- Samuel Goldwyn

ID may yet...

"I congratulate Steve [Meyer] and his colleagues because they are at least attempting to come up with some sort of positive arguments for intelligent design. My personal opinion and that of most others is that they haven’t succeeded. They may yet. If they do succeed, then they have a right to be taught."

-- Eugenie Scott

Articles that beg a response

Non-telic origin of life and evolution based on evidence?

of life on this planet." To be sure, there is a great amount of evidence supporting many of the ideas they mention. However, there is extremely little evidence that the origin of life is an atelic event. In fact, it is safer to say that there is no evidence at all. After years of personally searching and monitoring origin of life research, I have seen nor heard of any empriically verfied tests, data, models, hypotheses, or examples that can be held up as evidence.

I'm not talking about "proof." I'm talking about line(s) of evidence that would even point us in the direction of an atelic origin of life.

If anyone finds some good, clear and rigourous evidence, please leave me a message here.

National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), 1995, issued the following statement on evolution: "The diversity of life on earth is the outcome of evolution: an unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable and natural process of temporal descent with genetic modification that is affected by natural selection, chance, historical contingencies and changing environments." Two years later the NABT removed the words "unsupervised" and "impersonal." More here...

If evolution is a purely blind natural process that is "unpredictable," what good is it to science? A blind natural process, seemingly by definition, should be supremely repetitive. That's how natural regularity works. A repeating process is predictable. Where is the NABT going with this line of thought?

Epcyclistic research

The non-telic account of abiogenesis is slowly flaking apart before our eyes. What is to blame for this apparent lack of progress? Epcyclistic research. Unsolved problems, or asking the wrong questions?

Joey and Jill romping
Joey and Jill romping

Front-loading?

Human brain result of 'extraordinarily fast' evolution

Joey in pouch
Joey in pouch
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