Dancing with the Disco Institute Re: [asa] Discovery Institute against harmonizing?

Dancing with the Disco Institute

Mark Borello

<quote>
I recently had the opportunity to comment on a talk presented by Dr.
John West, associate director of the Center for Science and Culture at
the Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design's 'think tank'. I agreed
to make a brief public comment with the sole stipulation that Dr. West
provide me the text of the talk a week or two in advance.
</quote>

Mark Borello quickly demolishes West's vacuous arguments and shows
some troubling quote mining.

But his colleague Jim Curtsinger shows an even more troubling picture
http://www.mnscience.org/index.php?id=139

<quote>The actor says in part, quoting Darwin ("this" refers to acts
of sympathy toward the weak): "No one who has attended to the breeding
of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to
the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst
animals to breed."</quote>

Versus what Darwin really said

<quote>No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals
will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It
is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads
to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of
man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst
animals to breed.

West and his actor leave out excepting in the case of man himself!</quote>

Sad really...

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Received on Sat Dec 15 01:05:47 2007