{"id":687,"date":"2008-08-14T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=687"},"modified":"2008-09-29T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T18:09:54","slug":"discovery-institute-opens-a-second-front-with-supernatural-cosmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Institute Opens A Second Front With &#8220;Supernatural Cosmology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recived this e-mail today from Dr Paul D Cottle, a noted\u00c2\u00a0Professor of nuclear physics at FSU and a member of the Florida Citizens for Science. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.fsu.edu\/Faculty\/CottlePaul.htm\">http:\/\/www.physics.fsu.edu\/Faculty\/CottlePaul.htm<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0He raises many interesting and valid points,so I have posted the letter in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0It appears the Discovery Institute folks are opening a second front in their effort to introduce the supernatural into public school science classrooms.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen this already, but it now appears they are taking on cosmology.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m saying this on the basis of what is perhaps a pretty slim thread, a post on their blog:http:\/\/www.discovery.org\/<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Summary is the idea that God (well, &#8220;designer&#8221;) must be invoked to understand the dynamics of the universe at the cosmological level.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is my\u00c2\u00a0paragraph on why cosmology is actually much more vulnerable to the argument for design and non-naturalism than evolution\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biology&#8217;s &#8220;standard model,&#8221; evolution, explains all the available data, but that is not the case in physics. The standard model of particle physics does not even begin to explain cosmological dynamics, and cosmologists are flailing around nearly helplessly.\u00c2\u00a0 The only framework cosmologists still have is the requirement of naturalism &#8211; that we obviously don&#8217;t understand the laws of nature governing cosmology yet.\u00c2\u00a0 In this way, the physicists are much more vulnerable than the biologists.\u00c2\u00a0 The standard reference on the challenges facing cosmology is a Scientific American article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=the-end-of-cosmology\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=the-end-of-cosmology<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paul Cottle<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recived this e-mail today from Dr Paul D Cottle, a noted\u00c2\u00a0Professor of nuclear physics at FSU and a member of the Florida Citizens for Science. http:\/\/www.physics.fsu.edu\/Faculty\/CottlePaul.htm.\u00c2\u00a0He raises many interesting and valid points,so I have posted the letter in its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=687\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-b5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1050,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1050","url_meta":{"origin":687,"position":0},"title":"Opposing Faiths Clash over Evolution","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"May 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Discovery Institute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the Seattle-based headquarters of the intelligent design movement \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has just launched a new website, Faith and Evolution, which asks, can one be a Christian and accept evolution? 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