{"id":414,"date":"2007-12-02T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/02\/discovery-institute-youre-joki\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T11:02:20","slug":"discovery-institute-youre-joki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/discovery-institute-youre-joki\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Institute: You’re joking, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here we have another example of the link between Christian religion, Creationism, and Dishonesty. This time, it is in the post-game analysis of John West’s talk at the University of Minnesota, posted on the Discovery Institute<\/a>s’s Web Site.
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\nThe post<\/a> by Bruce Chapman, who was not at the talk, is based on “two calls” Bruce got about the talk. It is full of lies and misinformation, which are pretty much obliterated in this post by PZ Myers,<\/a> which appeared on the Internet only moments ago.<\/p>\n

What I find most amazing is this: West was asked explicitly if he was making a link between the early 20th century Eugenics and modern biologists, and he actually said “No, of course not.” He then went on for five minutes trying to make the link. In the Chapman missive, we see this:<\/p>\n

apologists for Darwinism want people to think that the link to eugenics is slight and had no great consequences, but West’s facts are authoritative and conclusive in showing that the connection is conspicuous and the consequences were major.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You see, we evolutionary biologists, we are all apologists for Darwin by this criterion, and we are all anti-eugenics.<\/p>\n

Chapman notes:<\/p>\n

The Darwinists hate hearing about the history of eugenics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, actually, that is not true. Many of us find it fascinating.<\/p>\n

I am particularly interested in the following connections:<\/p>\n