Arden Chatfield
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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| Quote | Dembski has to continue to advocate for the legitmacy of "intelligent design" even though the leadership of the antievolution movement has clearly signalled their intent to de-emphasize or abandon "intelligent design" as a sort of strategic sacrifice. We can expect that Dembski will long be ringed by a cadre of followers who didn't get the memo, though.
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I've made the comment a couple times before that an interesting thing about the creationist/intelligent design movement is that no argument that is EVER made in support of IDC is ever completely thrown out. ID and Creationist writings over the last 200 years have left a sort of snail trail, whereby anything anyone has ever said against evolution is still being believed and advanced by a subset of IDC's advocates, even if most of IDC's leaders have abandoned or repudiated the argument, or even if AIG explicitly urges people not to use the argument.
IDC argumentation has essentially passed into the realm of folklore, where ordinary uninformed people copy old ideas off the internet and apply them in an ad hoc basis, completely unaware of whether they've been discredited, or whether the 'central office' has moved on.
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