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Postcard from Dusseldorf: “This Is Science Upside Down”

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I’ve been working at a university in Dusseldorf for three weeks, just returned. While visiting Germany, I had lunch at Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig’s house. Lönnig is an ENV contributor and Senior Scientist, Department of Molecular Plant Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (retired). Here’s a picture I took in his back yard, in Köln. I asked him if he bred all the flowers in his yard, and he said his wife did all that.
Wolf-Ekkehard told me he has received invitations to talk on ID at several universities in recent years, but the usual suspects always hear about it and pressure the university to rescind his invitation, successfully several times. One thing he noted is that if you rail against evolution without any good arguments, nobody gets particularly upset. But the better your arguments are, the more violently they oppose you.
He said, “This is science upside down. Normally the better your arguments are, the more people open their minds to your theory, but with ID, the better your arguments are, the more they close their minds, and the angrier they become” (not an exact quote of course).
Granville Sewell is a mathematician at the University of Texas, El Paso, and the author of In the Beginning: And Other Essays on Intelligent Design (Discovery Institute Press) and other books.

Granville Sewell

Granville Sewell is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso. He has written four books on numerical analysis, most recently Solving Partial Differential Equation Applications with PDE2D, John Wiley, 2018. In addition to his years at UTEP, has been employed by Universidad Simon Bolivar (Caracas), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Purdue University, IMSL Inc., The University of Texas Center for High Performance Computing and Texas A&M University, and spent a semester (1999) at Universidad Nacional de Tucuman on a Fulbright scholarship, and another semester (2019) at the UNAM Centro de Geociencas in Queretaro, Mexico.

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