Darwin Central

Rev. Moon disciple Jonathan Wells wrote:The Seattle Weekly is one of those free newsprint advertisers that you find in bins on street corners in most major U. S. cities. Their editorial boards usually consist of people too far to the left even for the establishment media, and as sources of news they’re probably about as reliable as Minju Choson, the official organ of the Democratic People's Republic of [North] Korea. But homeless people make good use of them.

The August 29, 2007 issue of The Seattle Weekly features an article quoting Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Despite its name, the NCSE is not about teaching science but indoctrinating students at public expense in Darwinism, the creation myth of modern secularism. Whenever critics of Darwinism raise their heads, the NCSE rushes in to bop ‘em, kind of like a carnival game. Except that when the NCSE bops someone on the head it usually means the end of that person’s career in science teaching.

Scott is quoted in The Seattle Weekly as saying that “a real follower of modern science would never call himself a ‘Darwinist’,” because “evolutionary biology has advanced way beyond Darwin's 19th-century tracts.” [1]

It’s true that the word “Darwinist” is seldom used by defenders of Darwin’s theory, though “never” is too strong a description.

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js1138 wrote:I'm actually pretty tired of people futzing about the word "Darwinist."

Plenty of legitimate writers, including Dawkins, have referred to themelves as Darwinists.

SeaLion wrote: ...

Rev. Moon disciple Jonathan Wells wrote:The Seattle Weekly is one of those far left communist rags.
... But homeless people make good use of them.

The August 29, 2007 issue ... quoting Eugenie Scott. Despite its name, the NCSE is not about teaching science but indoctrinating students at public expense in Darwinism, the creation myth of modern secularism.

Whenever critics of Darwinism raise their heads, the NCSE rushes in to bop ‘em, kind of like a carnival game.

Except that when the NCSE bops someone on the head it usually means the end of that person’s career in science teaching.

...spin continues...

dread wrote:

SeaLion wrote: ...

Rev. Moon disciple Jonathan Wells wrote:The Seattle Weekly is one of those far left communist rags.
... But homeless people make good use of them.

PatrickHenry wrote:This is truly a new low, an astonishing accomplishment for an organization which has previously dominated the depths of intellectual discourse. Wells begins by trashing The Seattle Weekly, the newspaper that exposed Campbell's duplicity. Then he slings the ol' left-wing insult at them. For all I know, The Seattle Weekly may indeed be a leftie outfit. Alas, most journalists seem bent that way. But even so, their exposure of Campbell's deceit seems true, and we note that Wells -- for all his flim-flam -- doesn't dispute it. So even a leftie give-away flier has hit a home run, and Wells has nothing to say except: "Yeah but you're fat!"

Then, while "dismissing" the views of Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Wells descends to the ultimate depths of irony. He says: "Despite its name, the NCSE is not about teaching science ..."

Look who's talking about names! Hey, Jonathan! Would you like to discuss all the "discoveries" made -- or even attempted -- by that queerly-named outfit you work for, the Discovery Institute?

The August 29, 2007 issue of The Seattle Weekly features an article quoting Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Despite its name, the NCSE is not about teaching science but indoctrinating students at public expense in Darwinism, the creation myth of modern secularism.

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Since logic is no longer a standard part of the curriculum, students might not notice that this is the time-worn fallacy of equivocation – changing the meaning of a term in the middle of an argument. Equivocation can make anything imply anything else. As a result, rational thought disappears.

So rather than learn Scott’s word games, biology students should begin by learning to distinguish “evolution” from “Darwinism” and “evolutionist” from “Darwinist.” Or “Darwinian” – it’s one and the same.

The Case For Intelligent Design In The Classroom

Jonathan Wells
October 13, 2005
Special to World Peace Herald

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At the heart of the controversy is the theory of intelligent design (ID). What is it, and why is it stirring up so much trouble?

ID maintains that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that some features of the natural world are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than unguided natural processes.

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So the controversy is scientific at one level, because it involves testing theories against the evidence. But at another level the controversy is also religious, because both Darwinism and ID can have implications for religion. It is this second level that provoked the ACLU to oppose ID in the Dover case.

Yet it makes no more sense to prohibit the teaching of ID because of its religious implications than to prohibit the teaching of Darwinism because of its anti-religious implications.

Jonathan Wells wrote:But at another level the controversy is also religious, because both Darwinism and ID can have implications for religion. It is this second level that provoked the ACLU to oppose ID in the Dover case.

js1138 wrote:I'm actually pretty tired of people futzing about the word "Darwinist."

Plenty of legitimate writers, including Dawkins, have referred to themelves as Darwinists.

He also says that, despite his advocacy for bringing intelligent design into the classroom, he himself is a "Darwinist."

A Darwinist "mole" has infiltrated the Discovery Institute!

SeaLion wrote:
A Darwinist "mole" has infiltrated the Discovery Institute!

Liberal Classic wrote:Wells should know better than to mention Korea.

Wyatt Earp wrote:For those not familiar with the Seattle Weekly, it is indeed a commie rag. It is so far to the left that it makes articles in the Washington Post look like right-wing-extremist propaganda by comparison.