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Reply to "Scientists Speak About Intelligent Design"

"Paradigm" is not French but Greek that has entered English. The French is just funny song lyrics from the song "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads. It means: "That's what I did that night, that's what she said that night. Finally doing what I hoped for, I throw myself towards glory. OK." The "je me lance" also has the connotation of "making a name for oneself."

There have been large and rather violent paradigm shifts in history: the triumph of heliocnetricism over Ptolomey's astronomy for example, and also Einsteinian physics over classical Newtonian. The invention of the scientific method over rote acceptance for ancient wisdom is the best known. Such shifts can occur within any discipline.

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