This Week in Intelligent Design - 29/03/11

Posted 29 March 2011 by Jack Scanlan

Intelligent design news from the 23rd of March to the 29th of March, 2011.

This week marked the highly notable, first ever mention of yours truly in an official Discovery Institute blog post, which is rather exciting. It's a pity then that, as I already said today, the mention was a horribly confused jumble of misinterpretation and laziness that made me come off like an undefinable supporter of ID-dualism, or something like that.

But whatever, that doesn't really matter in the scheme of things. What else happened this week in the online world of intelligent design?

8 Comments

harold · 30 March 2011

I agree with your comments, and I'm glad this was posted here.

John Kwok · 30 March 2011

I second harold's sentiments Jack. Poor David Klinghoffer is searching far and wide for new anti-ID critics to "critique", and, I suppose, needs to target undergraduates such as yourself (It's a pity he never learned biology nor any other science while he was at Brown.).

Karen S. · 30 March 2011

What? No ID research this week? How odd.

Wheels · 30 March 2011

Karen S. said: What? No ID research this week? How odd.

Didn't you read? They're doing blog science. What James Delingpole likes to call peer-to-peer review! The fact that this is so superior to "establishment science" is why there's been such a flurry of "work" done on CSI recently.

Science Avenger · 30 March 2011

John Kwok said: Poor David Klinghoffer is searching far and wide for new anti-ID critics to "critique", ...

He's also searching far back for allies in Wallace and Shaw. Unfortunately for him, opinions about the universe that are 120 and 90 years out of date are next to worthless, however brilliant the men who utterred them were in their day. Everyone reading this knows more about the universe than Shaw or Wallace (or Newton or Darwin) did. Then again, Klinghoffer is likely just projecting the static nature of the creationist/ID arguments onto science.

John Kwok · 30 March 2011

Science Avenger said:
John Kwok said: Poor David Klinghoffer is searching far and wide for new anti-ID critics to "critique", ...
He's also searching far back for allies in Wallace and Shaw. Unfortunately for him, opinions about the universe that are 120 and 90 years out of date are next to worthless, however brilliant the men who utterred them were in their day. Everyone reading this knows more about the universe than Shaw or Wallace (or Newton or Darwin) did. Then again, Klinghoffer is likely just projecting the static nature of the creationist/ID arguments onto science.

I don't think he'll find them in Wallace, who discovered Natural Selection independently of Darwin. If I was David, I might have to go back to Paley myself, if I was being logically consistent.

John Kwok · 30 March 2011

Jack,

Just hot off the presses. Luskin is whining and moaning about how Intelligent Design is scientifically testable, rebutting to criticism stated by Dartmouth ecologist Mark McPeek. Of course the literature Luskin cites is virtually non-peer-reviewed, contrary to his breathtaking inanity:

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/03/a_closer_look_at_one_scientist045311.html

Regards,

John

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