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May 12, 2005
Borrowing a Page From Lysenko, Intelligent Design Theorist Demands Gov't. Hearings
Posted by Ernest Miller
Yesterday, I wrote a bit about the ongoing evolution/intelligent design/creationism debate ongoing in Kansas (Lysenko's Intelligent Design). Today, there is more evidence of the Lysenkoist tendancies among the intelligent design cognoscenti. From the intelligent design theorist William Dembski's blog, Uncommon Descent comes this interesting suggestion (including illustration) (The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists):
I therefore await the day when [evolution/intelligent design governmental] hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas that compel evolutionists to be deposed and interrogated at length on their views. There are ways for this to happen, and the wheels are in motion (e.g., Congressional hearings over the teaching of biology in federally funded high schools for military kids). For such hearings to have the desired effect, however, will require that evolutionists be asked the right questions.
What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them. For a glimpse of what I have in mind, see the examination of Eugenie Scott by Robert George before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (go here [PDF]). [link in original]
Lysenko would be all in favor, I think. Though even Lysenko might have shied away from torturing a stuffed toy version of Darwin to make his point.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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1. arcticpenguin on May 12, 2005 01:31 PM writes...
Bill Dembski is a sadist. Where are PETST (People for the Ethical Treatment of Stuffed Toys) when you need them?
Permalink to Comment2. Voiceofreason on May 12, 2005 06:11 PM writes...
Wait why did he post that on his site, they got butchered by the old maid.
Permalink to CommentThe basic facts go as follows, intellegent design asserts its possition without a testible hypothesis, they then purposely confuse the scientific meaning of the word "theory" with the common mans use of the word, after doing all of this in order to morph their idea into a theory while morphing evolution into a mere congesture, and at this point they say that the evolutionist are being unfriendly to science.
Becouse of this, I know find it fun to calmly explain to my fellow Kansans that the law of gravity is better explained by the theory of relativity than by the theory of gravity.
They have no idea that their different things, so they freak out and call me names. Its better than that time I accidently walked into a christian youth group gathering at starbucks, while wearing a Bad Religion crossbuster shirt. They werent very christian about it though.
3. arcticpenguin on May 14, 2005 04:56 PM writes...
In case you haven't noticed already, your trackback posting has been removed from the Uncommon Descent blog, along with several other trackbacks and comments critical of the original sadistic posting. "Teach the controversy" and "air both sides" only apply to evolution supporters, not Intelligent Design Creationists.
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