Comments on: The Design of Life

By: Chris Rowan

Chris Rowan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:43:02 +0000

The Design of Life shows why the better arguments and stronger evidence are now on the intelligent design side…Strange, then, that the Discovery Insititute have spent the 0.0005% of intellectual effort which isn’t allocated to writing whiny press releases entirely on producing a textbook for schoolkids. It’s almost as if the only time that their ‘better arguments’ aren’t laughed out of the room is when their audience knows no science whatsoever…

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:56:23 +0000

My comment got “disappeared” at Dembksi’s blog Uncommon Descent for suggesting that “The Design of Life” would be just as successful as “Pandas”.They just can’t handle the truth…

By: Laelaps

Laelaps — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:07:07 +0000

I read the 1st chapter available online and it was horrible, and I think they’re shooting themselves in the foot by continuing to state that this is Of Pandas and People v.3 (although that’s a good thing for us given how notorious the previous installments were). I’m surprised they finally got their act together to get the book out, as well; they’ve been promising its release for a long time, every once in a while bringing it up to tell us we should be quaking in our boots. I see no such reason for fear, especially since intelligent design was effectively gutted long ago (no one seems to remember poor old Paley and Darwin’s refutations of natural theology).

By: pough

pough — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:38:59 +0000

Dembski’s projection abilities never cease to amaze me. I read a lot of anti-creationism sites and I don’t recall any of them saying ID will go away; in fact, the opposite. Most of them regularly claim that it will never go away. At the same time, Dembski has been predicting the imminent return of Jesus – I mean death of Darwinism – on an almost regular annual basis, hasn’t he?