Ptaylor
Posts: 1180 Joined: Aug. 2006
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Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ July 26 2013,14:37) | There's a response to Poenie. |
Yes. David Klinghoffer has helpfully explained how the post and reply process works over there. Here he was over at Amazon a couple of days ago, responding to this from commenter stickler: Quote | David Klinghoffer: "Unlike our Darwin-defending friends, I genuinely value debate, real debate..."
Really? Then why doesn't Evolution News and Views allow comments on their articles? |
Klinghoffer (irony metres off, please): Quote | Regarding stickler's complaint about comments on Evolution News & Views, we allow and encourage intelligent debate at ENV. In fact tomorrow morning we have scheduled a post by biologist Martin Poenie at the University of Texas at Austin, critical of Doug Axe's work as it figures in Darwin's Doubt. I applaud Dr. Poenie for joining us in discussion on that point. We've publicly invited Jerry Coyne to debate the merits of Darwin's Doubt at ENV -- he refused, preferring to hide behind Matzke, then Prothero. We have hosted Dr. Prothero's co-author Michael Shermer, who is very critical of our work and acquitted himself well in a debate about Alfred Russel Wallace's ideas. And so on.
What we don't allow, stickler, is anonymous sniping or the usual Darwinian spitting, screaming and cursing. That doesn't count as debate in my book. It demeans everyone, including thoughtful defenders of orthodox evolutionary theory. |
So that's how debate works over at EN&V. Invite well-enough respected scientists to present an article and whenever someone gullible enough takes up the offer, which will inevitably be critical of ID, get McLatchie or Luskin or Crowther to jump all over it with the usual obfuscatory crap a day or two later, and what do you know - victory!
Edited - removed crappy tinyurl link. Hopefully this Amazon one will work.
Edited by Ptaylor on July 26 2013,20:54
-------------- We no longer say: “Another day; another bad day for Darwinism.” We now say: “Another day since the time Darwinism was disproved.” -PaV, Uncommon Descent, 19 June 2016
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