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Leader in the Voice for Intelligent Design
Who: Dr. Robert
Kaita
Where: Princeton University
What: Experimental Plasma Physics with research in fusion
energy
How does the concept of intelligent design relate to your work?
One thing I find particularly intriguing is how people's presuppositions
restrict or make them choose particular methodologies in one area and
not another. This would apply for example in the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence in saying what is a real signal versus
what it is background noise, or in anthropology as to whether something
was produced by random processes or really designed as a tool. So I
constantly deal with the causal relationship between a particular
observation and the driver behind it.
What opportunities or opposition has your interest in intelligent
design presented?
There was one fellow in particular who came to me who was commonly
adamant about ridiculing "holy rollers." Well, a Christian was
particularly kind to him one time while his family was away. As a
result, he came to talk to me since he knew I was a Christian as well;
he wanted to figure out what this Christianity was all about. This
fellow physicist said, "Look, I don't want to hear about the logic. I
don't want to hear about these fancy arguments or whatever. I just want
to hear about meaning and purpose." There are certain things you need to
do just to level the playing field, but down under we are all cut of the
same cloth-we are all sinners in need of redemption.
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