Month: September 2006
Response to Barbara Forrest’s Kitzmiller Account Part V: Phillip Johnson and Of Pandas and People
[Editor’s Note: A single article combining all ten installments of this response to Barbara Forrest can be found here, at “Response to Barbara Forrest’s Kitzmiller Account.” The individual installments may be seen here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10.] In her Kitzmiller account, Barbara Forrest makes the strange argument that “Phillip Johnson had master-minded creationism’s transformation into ‘intelligent design’ after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed creationism in public schools in its 1987 Edwards v. Aguillard ruling.” This conspiracy theory sounds nice because Johnson is a lawyer, but it makes no sense. Paul Nelson’s story about Johnson, which Dr. Forrest cites, picks up with Johnson reading the Read More ›
Response to Barbara Forrest’s Kitzmiller Account Part IV: The “Wedge Document”
[Editor’s Note: A single article combining all ten installments of this response to Barbara Forrest can be found here, at “Response to Barbara Forrest’s Kitzmiller Account.” The individual installments may be seen here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10.] During the Kitzmiller trial, Barbara Forrest testified at length about the “wedge document,” insinuating that motives can disqualify a view from being scientific. Discovery Institute responded to these arguments long ago. Dr. Forrest recounts her testimony in her Kitzmiller account: My first slide made its significance clear: “[C]ould I have the first slide, please? This is the first page of the Wedge Strategy, and this is the Read More ›
Quick Evolution and Intelligent Design News Roundup
There is a great deal of newsworthy items this week in regards to the debate over evolution and intelligent design. Here are links to a few. Over at the Whitepath.com, muslim science writer Mustafa Akyol takes on — and bests, in my opinion — the NCSE’s Nick Matzke. Check out the ID The Future podcast about academic freedom and the Baylor Tenure Scandal. There’s been much talk about the Pope’s conclave on evolution last weekend. At Darwinia.com, Nemo points out: “The status of science is at risk from the confusions of Darwinists. If they need to be reminded of this by evangelicals, so much the worse for scientists, who should never have let this situation develop from their own obsessive Read More ›
Hot Selling Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Getting Rave Reviews
Human Events this week published a review of Jonathan Wells’ new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, by another author from the Politically Incorrect Guide series of books, Tom Bethell. Bethell is a senior editor at the American Spectator, is author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science,” and “The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages.” Bethell writes: “The story he tells is remarkable. Open-minded readers will surely conclude that the propaganda campaign on behalf of Darwinism has become so furious precisely because the scientific evidence for it is so weak.”
Putting Wikipedia On Notice About Their Biased Anti-ID Intelligent Design Entries
We received this e-mail recently from a friendly engineer. He gave us permission to post his letter but only if we put his name in bold.