TY - JOUR
T1 - Creationism and intelligent design are incompatible with scientific progress
T2 - A response to Shanta and Vêdanta
AU - Caetano-Anollés, Gustavo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Gustavo Caetano-Anollés.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In a recent opinion paper, B.K. Shanta claims science leaves no room for the subjective aspect of consciousness, and in doing so, attacks both origin of life and evolutionary research. He claims Vêdanta, one of the 6 orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, offers an explanation: “the origin of everything material and nonmaterial is sentient and absolute.” Here I discuss how the pseudoscience of these creationist views, which are aligned with Intelligent Design, are incompatible with scientific progress and should not be published in scientific journals.
AB - In a recent opinion paper, B.K. Shanta claims science leaves no room for the subjective aspect of consciousness, and in doing so, attacks both origin of life and evolutionary research. He claims Vêdanta, one of the 6 orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, offers an explanation: “the origin of everything material and nonmaterial is sentient and absolute.” Here I discuss how the pseudoscience of these creationist views, which are aligned with Intelligent Design, are incompatible with scientific progress and should not be published in scientific journals.
KW - Consciousness
KW - Darwinism
KW - Evolution
KW - Origin of life
KW - Pseudoscience
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U2 - 10.1080/19420889.2015.1123356
DO - 10.1080/19420889.2015.1123356
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84960871732
SN - 1942-0889
VL - 9
JO - Communicative and Integrative Biology
JF - Communicative and Integrative Biology
IS - 1
ER -