Re: Let's Review

On Apr 15, 7:28 am, "Alexander" <alexanderhud...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Wandering around at DI and UcD never does my blood pressure any good
but I have a morbid fascination for the bizarre leaps of logic and
reason that can happen there ('ID is just evidence for design nothing
more .... praaaaise Jeezus' etc.) but notice DI has put up its list of
peer reviewed literature again ... so let's review shall we:

Complete list here:http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=264...

In this list you have various headings so lets see how impressive the
ID literature is, just on the numbers game, as ID is clearly
undermining the very foundations of evolutionary science ... ahem ...
here we go:

Featured articles:
7 articles
2 of which are in 'Darwinism, Design, & Public Education' and are
variously penned by Minnich, Meyer, Behe and Dembski. Oh ... there's
one by Lonnig in 'Dynamical Genetics' apparently

Ok ... next bit is:
'Complete List'

um ... ok - not sure why this had to be separate from 'Featured
Articles' (apparently the 'featured articles' are of 'higher interest'
to readers) but let's move on:

'Peer-Reviewed Scientific Books Supportive of Intelligent Design
Published by Trade Presses or University Presses'

4 books listed, one by Dembski (The Design Inference) and Behe
(Darwin's Black Box). I seem to recall something happening in
someplace called Dover that called into question the degree of 'peer
review' that actually goes on with these tomes, but I digress.

So ... anyway ... 4 books that should probably fall into the category
of 'popsci' (if you were feeling generous, there was a following wind
and hell had frozen over)

Next up:
'Scientific Books Supportive of Intelligent Design Published by
Prominent Trade Presses'

3 books listed ... to whit:
Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our
Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery (Regnery Publishing,
2004).

William Dembski, No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot be
Purchased without Intelligence (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2002).

Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Adler & Adler, 1985).

Any reference to "Nature's Destiny," the book that Denton wrote 13
years later that admits many of the errors in the 1985 book?

Note to lurkers:

Anti-evolution activists frequently advertise the 1985 book, and very
rarely even mention, let alone advertise, the more recent book. Even
if they thought that the latter one had the errors they'd have no
problem critically analyzing them. Such a pattern is hard to reconcile
with the common assumption that anti-evolution activism is based
primarily on honest belief, either that they have better scientific
theory or that even think that evolution is "in crisis."


(snip)

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