Dawkins: Banned at Berkely

Richard Dawkins Now A Heretic To Progressives

Never analyze Islam if you want to speak at Berkeley. Islam is a Protected Victimhood Category.

‘World’s most famous atheist’ booted from Berkeley because of his ‘hurtful speech’ on Islam

CS Lewis, Plato, and George Berkely On Design

I have long avoided ID for the same reasons that Lewis did. It can be inferred, it seems to me, but never proven. However, that is exactly the status of the "science" of evolution: it cannot be proven, so it is inferred and then called "truth" (e.g. Coyne). And because ID is never addressed by elitists with evidence of its impossibility, or other than the ridicule of dogmatic elitism, perhaps the elitists have no actual case against it.

As a supplement, I also attach this link to Plato's book 10, wherein he concludes that the universe is preceded by "soul" and that it is "soul" which energizes and maintains it. This predates by over 2,000 years George Berkeley's ideas of mind maintaining the continuing existence of objects and the universe.

Challenge

There was a young man who said God,
must find it exceedingly odd
when he finds that the tree
continues to be
when noone's about in the Quad.

Reply

Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd
I'm always about in the Quad
And that's why the tree
continues to be
Since observed by, yours faithfully, God

These two limiricks posed the problem and solution for Berkeley's position. His ideas received 20th century support from Quantum Mechanics, when it was found that particles didn't actually exist until observed. And it seems that time enables all mass/energy not only to exist at a specific time, but to move ever so slightly when the time changes from t(n) to t(n+1). That enabling function of time seems beyond scrutiny, since time itself is measurable only by its artifacts, which are the changes which it enables, mechanical, electrical or subatomic.

The issue of the credibility of ID is discussed here as well.