carlsonjok
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| Quote (Rob @ Aug. 19 2007,00:15) | ? ? | Quote (carlsonjok @ Aug. 17 2007,11:17) | Here is the money shot: Marks ?is free to resume work in the informatics lab on his own time. He is free to put up the website again so long as it includes a disclaimer that it does not represent Baylor's position.
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Thanks for the info, carlsonjok. ?This is interesting, and not unexpected by those who were wondering why Baylor, after giving Dembski's Polyani Center the boot, would host this worthless project.
Dembski was apparently referring to this project when he said: ? ? ? ? ? ? | Quote | Dembski: Happy New Year to all UD regulars. I expect 2007 to be a bang-up year for ID. Here are three things in particular I?m looking forward to in the coming year:
? 1. A new ID friendly research center at a major university. (This is not merely an idle wish stay tuned.) |
Apparently it is merely an idle wish. ?Dembski's "research center" devolved into a "lab", which apparently consists of Dembski, Marks, and two grad students. Their research consists of running MATLAB programs, probably on Marks's office computer or in a common computer lab. And now it turns out that the project isn't even affiliated with Baylor. A bang-up year for ID, indeed. |
It is an odd situation. Given the reaction, I have to assume Baylor was not in on the deal and Marks opened the lab on his own initiative. This is all armchair politics, but it almost seems as if they were trying to recreate the other great victory of the ID movement: L'affaire de Sternberg, hoping to have Baylor either roll over or over-react and give the movement a new martyr(1). The solution reached on August 9, as it were, accomplished neither. Which may explain why there have been no posts on UD, replete with allusions to French history(2), about the matter.
(1) Speaking of martyrs,has there been any sightings of Guillermo Gonzalez or has he outlived his usefulness?
(2) Either Waterloo or Joan of Arc might have been referred to. Although it seems as if the Baylor administration possessed at least some of the skills of a Talleyrand.
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