En accumulant du matériel pour tailler un short à Jean Staune, je tombe sur un texte d'un des partisans de l'Intelligent Designer :
Même en anglais on reconnaît le style immédiatement n'est-ce pas ?Creative Coherence and Intelligent Design
I’d like in conclusion to pursue a more speculative thought. The fact that a certain coherence exists in our universe is not surprising in itself. As noted by proponents of the weak anthropic principle, life could not have developed in an incoherent universe where the fundamental laws were constantly changing. The universe must be relatively coherent even if it was born from pure chance; otherwise we wouldn’t be here to observe it. But nothing obliges such a universe to prevent a civilization from sending information faster than the speed of light in order to travel through time. Neither does the universe prevent a civilization from creating "inconsistencies" like the ones we see in science fiction films, where a character can go back in time and murder his own parents, for example.
We now have proof that "something" can go faster than light from various areas of research: nonlocality, the tunnel effect, quantum teleportation, and others. Yet as we noted before, it is as if we can only acknowledge the existence of faster-than-light phenomena — a fundamental law of nature prevents us from using them in any way. It is therefore logical to assume that an intelligent designer — one concerned with preventing total chaos and establishing the necessary conditions for life — would create a universe where time travel or other such inconsistencies are impossible. For there is no reason that a universe born out of pure chance would forbid such activities.
These are tantalizing and inspiring thoughts. However, we still need to know much more about the workings of nature before we can use the developments in quantum physics as a base for further considerations about the design — or the designer — of the universe.
Papier signé par Jean Staune himself, intitulé "On The Edge of Physics", publié par la revue "Science & Spirit", financée, vous l'avez deviné déjà : "Site and magazine supported by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation."
Nous avons ci-dessus la conclusion du papier de Staune, le paragraphe introductif n'est pas mal non plus :
The results of recent experiments in quantum physics have not only revolutionized science in a fundamental way; they have also cleared the path for a rational and credible reconsideration of the existence of an "intelligent design" in the universe. Jean Staune, this month’s guest editor of Science & Spirit, charts the course from hard science to spiritual possibility.
C'est dommage que chez S&S ne sont pas du genre sérieux, ils ne datent pas leur papiers. Ainsi on ne saura pas quand Staune parlait encore d'Intelligent Design et Intelligent Designer. Je suppose avant que la JTF ne se fâche avec le Discovery Institute.
[update] C'est plus marrant que je ne le pensais en fait. Le site de S&S édition papier est là. Et surprise : plus de trace du papier de Staune ! Il a simplement disparu ? A penser qu'il n'a jamais vu la version papier
sur le web :
sur le papier :
Allez savoir pourquoi.
D'autant plus que le dit papier traîne toujours dans les arcanes de l'UIP, UIP qui n'a rien à voir avec l'Intelligent Designer et l'Intelligent Design, bien entendu. Sauf les point de vue de son secrétaire général perpétuel :-) .
