RE: The Case for Intelligent Design

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:01:55 -0700

You have to realize that the Discovery Institutes Wedge plan is already getting behind. There has been a significant loss in momentum in getting ID reach a scientific status. It's interesting to see that science can not be scheduled...
ID has so far failed to come up with a scientific foundation. Behe's IC has failed and Dembsky's filter has been shown to be lacking as well.
They must be getting worried.

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From: Susan Brassfield[SMTP:susan-brassfield@OU.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:56 AM
To: Stephen Jones; evolution@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: The Case for Intelligent Design

>Reflectorites
>
>Here is a review by Mike Behe of Robert Pennock's recent book, "Tower
>of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism" that was posted on
>another list that I am on.
>
>I like the paragraph:
>
>"Methodological naturalism proves at last nothing more than an artificial
>restriction on thought, and it will eventually pass. Despite would-be
>gatekeepers like Pennock, the argument for design is gaining strength with
>the advance of science and for a simple reason once described by the
>physicist Percy Bridgman: `The scientific method, as far as it is a method,
>is nothing more than doing one's damnedest with one's mind, no holds
>barred.'"
>
>Steve
>
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>The Weekly Standard, June 7, 1999, BOOKS & ARTS; Pg. 35
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>HEADLINE: THE GOD OF SCIENCE;
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>The Case for Intelligent Design
>
>BYLINE: By Michael J. Behe;
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I'm astonished at the sneering tone of this article. It certainly doesn't
help his case! It makes the whole thing seem more like propaganda than
science.

Susan

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