On this sad day of James Watson's death; we must discuss those who refuse his life's work. Which was biology - and genetics, which Watson helped invent as a field.
Scientody, if you don't like the word "science", concerns models of the physical world which models may be tested. You may or may not ever have liked Milgrom's modification of Newton, but it proposed to be testable. And it got tested, and proven wrong. It was still science.
This is not the case for "intelligent design" which is why ID got thrown out of a Dover court. It was always a philosophic stance, coming out of Near Eastern societies' need to enforce a common cultural frame of reference. Later the Greeks eavesdropped upon some of these conversations such that we got David Sedley's classic book on the their "Creationism"(s).
Grokipedia has failed to understand this. It's picked up whatever its AI has picked up. I suspect: from American Right sources. Like when Microsoft's Tay got fed inputs from 4chan.
This bodes ill for Grokipedia elsewhere.
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