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Albion · 07-09-2003, 09:25 PM

They're a secular think tank? Have they said how many fellows of the Center for (the Renewal of) Science and Culture are atheists or agnostics?

I loved this bit:

"The institute also is perhaps the nation's leading proponent of intelligent design - the idea that life is too complex to have occurred without the help of an unknown, intelligent being."

Whole new definition of the word "unknown" there.

Non-praying Mantis · 07-10-2003, 06:50 AM

If they are a "think tank," then they must be the equivalent of a Panzer I-A (the worst German tank in WWII)!

NPM

theyeti · 07-10-2003, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Those named by the network disagree with the claim, including the Discovery Institute and its Science and Culture Center of Seattle.

"Instead of wasting time looking at motivations, we wish people would look at the facts," said John West, associate director of the center.

We already knew these guys were hypocrites, but this takes the cake.

The DI fellows write whole books attacking the presumed motivations of evolutionary biologists, acussing them of promoting atheism, naturalism, materialism, or some other kind of pernicious -ism. In fact, these diatribes easily outnumber their so-called technical works.

Quote:

"Our goal nationally is to encourage schools and educators to include more about evolution, including controversies about various parts of Darwinian theory that exists between even evolutionary scientists," West said. "We are a secular think tank."

Uh-huh. A secular think-tank whose avowed mission is to destroy secularism. Makes sense to me.

theyeti

pangloss · 07-10-2003, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Principia
[B]From the article:
Discovery Institute Fellow Raymond Bohlin, who also is executive director of Probe Ministries, based in Richardson, Texas, will deliver that message in person Wednesday before the State Board of Education. Bohlin has a doctorate degree in molecular cell biology from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Old Ray Bohlin...

I once commented on an artilce he had written about PJ and Steve Jones got very angry with me...

The article made it sound as though Bohlin had a crush on old Phil - referred to him as "handsome" (hey - I'm no Rob Lowe but Phil Johnson is not handsome!) and said he had a "supermodel wife" or some such hyperbolic gibberish.

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07-09-2003, 09:25 PM	#11
Albion Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: US east coast. And www.theroyalforums.com Posts: 2,829	They're a secular think tank? Have they said how many fellows of the Center for (the Renewal of) Science and Culture are atheists or agnostics? I loved this bit: "The institute also is perhaps the nation's leading proponent of intelligent design - the idea that life is too complex to have occurred without the help of an unknown, intelligent being." Whole new definition of the word "unknown" there.

07-10-2003, 06:50 AM	#12
Non-praying Mantis Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Roanoke, VA, USA Posts: 2,646	If they are a "think tank," then they must be the equivalent of a Panzer I-A (the worst German tank in WWII)! NPM

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