User:JosephCCampana

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Member profile

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Self-imposed labels

  • ID researcher
  • ID theorist
  • Front-loader
  • Teleological Evolutionist
  • Parareductionist
  • Inquirist
  • Contrarian
  • Omni-skeptic
  • Epistemologist
  • Philologist
  • Teleologist
  • Natural Philosopher
  • Neo-Platonist
  • Idealist
  • von Hildebrandean
  • Formalist
  • Big Bangist
  • Constructivist
  • Baconist(Roger and Francis)
  • Actualist
  • Scientific Instrumentalist
  • Holist
  • Humanist
  • Structuralist
  • Bonaventurian
  • Scotist
  • Quasi-Aristotelian
  • Augustinian
  • Non-Thomist(usually)
  • Realist
  • Triarchist
  • Quasi-Hylomorphist
  • Socratic
  • Dualist
  • Mental realist
  • Iconoclast
Joey with Jill
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Joey with Jill
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Call for admins

There are two kinds of people in the world: those that get things done and those that don't. If you're the kind of person who gets things done, and you are interested in helping here at ResearchID.org, please leave me a message on my talk page by clicking on this link: --Joseph "Joey" C. Campana

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Current projects

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My Wish List

If anyone would like to help our research, please consider purchasing these titles.

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My humor page

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My Favorite Intelligent Design Syndication feeds

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Watch the birdie

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My favorite links

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For me to check out from campus...

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For me to contribute to later...

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"The Mill"

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"The Information Superhighway"

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For me to thoroughly comb later...

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For me to look at later...

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Collections of Canards

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Favorite editorials

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For me to read later...

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For me to work on later...

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

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My free-verse poetry

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Ingenious Cleave

"With each new dawning day,

Life shows itself to be surprisingly ingenious
In many a novel way.
Yet, self-proclaimed "reasonable people"
Insist that ingenuity came from stupidity,
That reason came from unreason,
Meaning came from meaninglessness,
By the passing of season.

To those who use this way of reason,

How will the universe show this false?
What statement will nature weave?
What will bring the mind to repulse?
-- Oh when will the dromedary's vertebrae cleave?"
  • 6 March 2007
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Clever Life

"Life is forever clever. Darwin? Ever?"

  • 12 February 2007
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My favorite quotes

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

  • Those who claim "ID is irrelevant" - are irrelevant.
- Joseph "Joey" C. Campana
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Science

  • To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible. Scientific advances often come from uncovering a hitherto unseen aspect of things as a result, not so much of using new instruments, but rather of looking at objects from a different angle. This look is necessarily guided by a certain idea of what this so-called reality might be. It always involves a certain conception about the unknown, that is, about what lies beyond that which one has logical or experimental reasons to believe.
- Francois Jacob, Nobel Laureate
  • 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
  • ...the presence of a creative deity in the universe is clearly a scientific hypothesis.
- Richard Dawkins
  • It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.
- Richard Dawkins
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett
  • Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
- Richard Feynman
  • The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
- Thorstein Veblen
  • Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
- Henri Poincare
  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
- Isaac Asimov
  • People have decided you have to convince other people that since no scientists disagree you shouldn't disagree either. But whenever you hear that in science, that's pure propaganda."
- Richard Lindzen, MIT climatologist
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Biology

  • Neo-Darwinian evolution is a philosophical doctrine so lacking in empirical support it is effectively dead.
--Stephen Jay Gould (paraphrase from p. 120 in Gould, S. J. (1980) "Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?" Paleobiology 6(1): 119-130.)
  • 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
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Knowledge

  • It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 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
  • Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson
  • You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- Richard Feynman
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Going against the grain

  • It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
- GH Hardy
  • 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
  • The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
- Aleister Crowley
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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
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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
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Press coverage of ID

My view regarding press coverage of intelligent design:

  • Let's have some new cliches.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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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
  • Until we evolutionists reach out to understand what motivates people on the other side, we're going to lose, and we bloody well deserve to.
-- Michael Ruse
  • We are going to see intelligent design [in more US schools] within ten years.
-- Michael Ruse, May 9, 2005
  • My point was that if they could do so, scientists would evaluate it as they do any other such research and, if the explanation worked, would happily accept it regardless of its philosophical implications. Scientists, as a group, don't give a damn about metaphysical implications of their work; they care about explanations that work.
-- Ed Brayton
  • ...if I.D. research actually could come up with some decent results, mainstream biologists would welcome them as valuable for further study.
-- John Rennie
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Articles that beg a response

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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 empirically verified tests, data, models, hypotheses, or examples that can be held up as evidence for the atelic origin of life.

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 rigorous evidence, please leave me a message here.

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Atelic evolution as science

  • "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."
- :National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), 1995, statement on evolution (Two years later the NABT removed the words "unsupervised" and "impersonal.") More here...
  • "The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable."
- Stephen J. Gould - 1999. Flipside first person singular evolution: Students have a right to the truth. Interview by Jared Lowe. Charleston (W.V.) Gazette. 11 December, sec. C, p. 1.
  • "Evolution is no longer necessarily progressive; it no longer strives toward perfection or any other goal. It is opportunistic, hence unpredictable."
- Ernst Mayr

If evolution is a purely blind natural process that is "unpredictable," and "unrepeatable," 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, Gould, and Mayr going with this line of thought?

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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
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Joey and Jill romping


Joey in pouch
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Joey in pouch
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