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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 21 2008,16:15   

Bill Dembski has a lovely post November Apologetics Conference — We need more than good arguments.  
   
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It’s nice to be in such distinguished company as indicated in this press release. I’ll certainly make my usual ID arguments. But I’ll also be pointing out that our opponents, the materialists and their cronies, are now battling principally for political rather than intellectual control. Indeed, the materialists have lost the intellectual battle.

List of ID victories follows:
* computers are still stupider than humans,
* chimpanzees are stupider than dogs and birds,
* origin of life has not been clarified.

The punchline:
   
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There’s an old New Yorker cartoon that shows a client seated across from his attorney. The attorney remarks, “You’ve got a great case Mr. Smith. Now, how much justice can you afford?” We’ve made a good case. What we need now are good legal and political strategies.

I suppose this can be fairly interpreted as We don't need no stinkin' science no more.

ETA: oh, and there's also a gratuitous swipe at liberal fascism.  That's a winning intellectual argument.

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