2009-05-28 Holier than thou

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Date:	2009-05-28
Link:	http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/05/holier_than_thou.php
Author:	PZ Myers (writingscat)
Source:	ScienceBlogs/Pharyngula (articlescat)
Topics:	creationism faith + evolution Francis Collins
Categories:	creationism faith + evolution Francis Collins

Holier than thou

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I know that in the past the Discovery Institute has been particularly damning of Ken Miller: he also speaks that same language, and is in competition for the same niche as the DI fellows. Collins is apparently even worse, since he has now driven the DI to flamboyantly and publicly admit that their whole scheme is aimed at shilling for religion, and that their argument is that evolution, even the hobbled version of Collins and Miller, is incompatible with god-belief.</p>

I hope the NCSE and various lawyers have snapped an archival copy of the entire "Faith and Evolution" website — it will be so useful in the next ID trial.

It's an aggressively dishonest site, too. It consists of lots of people claiming that modern scientific evidence points more strongly than ever to a cosmic designer, which is a flat lie – finding natural mechanisms for complex processes means their designer god is increasingly superfluous. And Wells, that fraudulent pseudo-scholar, trots out the idiotic 'we believe in microevolution, the rest has no evidence' argument. That's long been the hallmark of ignorant people who know nothing of the wealth of evidence beyond a few small scale, well-documented instances. It's also nothing but a rhetorical ploy, where they concede a few points to appear more reasonable in their denial of other, equally well supported cases.

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“...[faith + evolution is] an aggressively dishonest site, too. It consists of lots of people claiming that modern scientific evidence points more strongly than ever to a cosmic designer, which is a flat lie – finding natural mechanisms for complex processes means their designer god is increasingly superfluous.”