It’s been a while since my last posting here (I blame pressure of work). That was prompted by one of the Centre for Intelligent Design’s periodic email newsletters. Sadly these newsletters tend to be issued just when I’m unable to draft a blog response! Howver, another of these newsletters plopped into my mailbox yesterday. It’s rather
After some months of silence, I received a message from Alastair Noble, Director of the UK’s very own Discotute wannabees, the Glasgow-based Centre for Intelligent Design. It’s the usual mish-mashed rehash of Discotute allegations of discrimination against Intelligent Design creationism with the usual claims that Intelligent Design isn’t creationism but really science. Indeed, Alastair begins
Here’s a video of P Z Myers taking down three cornerstones of Stephen Meyer’s Darwin’s Doubt at Skepticon. For a more detailed take on Meyer’s misrepresentation of science, see Nick Matzke (Meyer’s Hopeless Monster, Part II), Smilodon’s Retreat (Darwin’s Doubt – a review), and this excellent review in Science (When Prior Belief Trumps Scholarship).
Having read an earlier book by Stephen Meyer (see No Signature in the Cell), I was distinctly underwhelmed by his grasp of biology and had no great desire to read his latest ‘work’, Darwin’s Doubt. It’s notable that the reviews that I’ve read on the web fall into two camps. On the one hand, the lay
It takes a special kind of doggedness to make an “Infographic” that rehashes debunked stories as if the debunking had never happened, but that’s what the Discovery Institute did the other day. Perhaps some of this nonsense is down to the background of the author, who appears to have zero science credentials. The other day,
Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute seems a bit exercised about some of the criticism levelled at Stephen Meyer’s latest creationist tome over at Amazon. The Discotute boys don’t really like comments on their writing (hence there is no commenting at the bizarrely named Evolution News & Views website). So he’s written some rubbish about
I’d been wondering why there hadn’t been any updates recently from Glasgow’s very own Discotute-wannabees, the Centre for Intelligent Design (abbreviated C4ID, in a very modern idiom). I needn’t have worried as while I was on a long weekend in a 3G blackspot, the August 2013 newsletter plopped into my mailbox. Headed as usual by
The New Yorker has an interesting and well written blog article by Gareth Cook that reviews the new Discotute tome Darwin’s Doubt – Doubting Darwin’s Doubt. Cook places the book and Meyer’s argument in the context of the history of Intelligent Design creationism as a cynical rebranding exercise aimed at inveigling creationism back into American schools after
Stephen Meyer’s latest creationist book, Darwin’s Doubt, was launched a week or so ago, so it was only a matter of time before Glasgow’s Discotute wannabees C4ID joined the fun. And so it proves, with the latest missive from chemist Dr Alastair Noble reaching my inbox. Unfortunately for Meyer (who is not a biologist) his
A couple of years ago, I took the effort to read and review Stephen Meyer’s book Signature in the Cell, a risible romp through misrepresentations of molecular biology, origins of life research and information theory (No Signature in the Cell). My heart sank when I saw that Meyer was to publish another book, entitled Darwin’s