(Forwarded from NCSE)
At the Ohio Board of Education meeting held March 11th, 2002, Center for
Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC) President Stephen Meyer and CRSC
Senior Fellow Jonathan Wells presented the board with a bibliography of
forty four papers published in peer reviewed scientific literature.
The Bibliography was prefaced with the following explanation:
The publications represent dissenting viewpoints that challenge one or
another aspect of neo-Darwinism (the prevailing theory of evolution taught
in biology textbooks), discuss problems that evolutionary theory faces, or
suggest important new lines of evidence that
biology must consider when explaining origins.
A posting on the CRSC web site, dated March 11, contains the bibliography
with the following disclaimer:
The publications are not presented either as support for the theory of
intelligent design, or as indicating that the authors cited doubt
evolution. [emphasis in the original]
Now, if you're starting to wonder whether the intended purpose of the
bibliography is to support intelligent design, or demonstrate "problems
with evolution", you're going to be even more confused if you read the
article the CRSC posted on its web site, again dated March 11th, by Fred
Hutchison.
Hutchison writes that "[Stephen Meyer and Jonathan Wells] offered to the
board a list of forty papers (sic) written by intelligent design scientists
which had been published in peer reviewed journals." [emphasis added]
(See
http://www.discovery.org/viewDB/index.php3?program=CRSCstories&command=view&id=1133)
NCSE requests the CRSC to clear the air. First, correct the false claim
that the 44 articles are written by "intelligent design scientists."
Second, explain why the bibliography was presented to the Ohio Board of
Education sans the disclaimer that appeared with it on the CRSC web site.
(Was the board ever notified of its insertion?)
It is of little wonder why the intelligent design movement seems to find it
difficult to take positions on basic concepts like the age of the earth and
descent with modification when their leading organization suffers so much
confusion.
For NCSE's complete analysis of the bibliography and comments from authors
see:
http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2002/OH/122_intelligent_design_bibliograph_4_5_2002.asp)
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"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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