Glenn wrote, in part:
" As an 8-year survivor of mid-level management I can say this, Dembski has
a lot to learn
about management..."
Glenn -- I read your entire post with keen interest. As you know, you and I
don't
exactly share some posititions on Dembski, Johnson and the ID project. But
when I came on that snippet above, it very well summed up my own reaction
to the controversy. My experiences in IBM very much confirm that
observation.
Keep up the good work from the other side of the big pond, my friend.
My chief interest in the ID project is that it gets a fair hearing with a
minimum
of personality conflicts and, if it has merit, attains its proper place; if
it
does not, that it remain an interesting historical footnote, perhaps
along the lines of Gosse's OMPHALOS.
BTW, I did a lot of historical research on Gosse's OMPHALOS over in the
Denver
University library last weekend. Read the entire text of FATHER AND SON,
written by Gosse's
son, Edmund Gosse. I had not realized that when Gosse released OMPHALOS for
publication
in the fall of 1857 that his wife had died the previous February of cancer;
nor had I
appreciated the depth of Gosse's fundementalist positions, nor his
widespread
reputation, both before and after 1857, as a competent and respected
scientist. Did you
know he is credited with the invention (?) of the acquarium?
I have, of course, the reprinted OMPHALOS which came out in 1998 and is
still in print.
I find it interesting reading; I cannot see where my ICR friends
(apparently) despise it so much.
John
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