pangloss

Writes Per:

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Per Abrahmson
posted 04-19-2002 11:01 AM
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Reasons why Pennock's book should get a bad review:

1. It consists in large part of material that is available on the internet.

2. The ID position was underrepresented.

3. The ID theorists were not given an opportunity to write fresh material for the book.

4. The ID theorists are not given a chance to respond.

So, you may say, Pennock intended to refute ID and he did a great job. He shouldn't have been required to give the ID theorists equal opportunity to defend their ideas.

Bull**** I say! If the intention of the book was to truly enter into a "Smackdown" with ID, and to land the knockout punch, then why walk into ò¸Žring with a crippled strawman?
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Hmmm.... I wonder how many ID critics were invited to debunk ID in any of Phil Johnson's books? In any of Dembski's? Jonny Wells?

The usual double-standard whining from the desperate 'victims' of real science....

Daydreamer

They're not the only ones. A number of liberal news sites I visit place their hate mail up for people to mock - and not a month goes by without someone saying "What about the First Amendment you (expletive)s are always whinning about like (expletive)? Why don't you put articles from OUR side on your site?"

Fucking morons.

KC

Indeed. And when they DO respond, we get the usual whining, quote-mining and conspiracy-theorizing which constitutes their idea of 'scholarship'. The more I read of Wells, for example, the more absolutely disgusted I get with his behavior.

I'm currently reading Peter Grant's 'Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches', and believe me, the more I understand just how careful and comprehensive the Grant's work in the Galapagos was, the more ridiculous and dishonest Well's hatchet job on it in 'The Icons of Evolution' looks.

Cheers,

KC