Dembski's Challenge to Baylor biology faculty

From: Jack Haas (haas.john@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 10:41:51 EDT

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    You may be interested in Bill's ID challenge via a letter to the editor in the Waco Tribune.
    Jack Haas

    Biologist challenge
    http://www.wacotrib.com/news/newsfd/auto/feed/news/2003/10/11/1065852729.19830.9581.5576.html

    In Brian Gaar's report about the Dawson family's call to remove Frank
    Beckwith from the Baylor institute named in honor of J.M. Dawson,
    Baylor biology professor Dan Wivagg asserted that intelligent design
    is religion rather than science and is promoted through political
    means rather than through scientific discourse.

    Wivagg is not alone among Baylor biology professors in making such
    assertions. Richard Duhrkopf, for instance, in a front-page story for
    the Houston Chronicle in July 2000, made essentially the same charge.

    I've now been on the faculty at Baylor since 1999. I am among the
    foremost researchers on intelligent design. I have published work on
    intelligent design in the peer-reviewed literature. What's more, my
    work on intelligent design is favorably cited in the peer-reviewed
    mathematical and biological literature (e.g., International Journal of
    Fuzzy Systems and the Annual Review of Genetics). At no time in my
    four years at Baylor has any biologist challenged my views on
    intelligent design to my face.

    I therefore challenge any biologist(s) at Baylor to show, in a public
    debate with me, that intelligent design is not a scientific theory or
    directly pertinent to biology. Name the time and place, and I'll be
    there.

    William Dembski
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