JLT
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Welcome to our latest edition of "Did you know...?" with Casey Luskin. This week:
Did you know that constitutionality is a strenght of science supplementary textbooks?
| Quote | | Leave it to a Darwinist biologist to spin constitutionality — a strength — into a defect. |
Luskin seems to be a bit agitated about Brian Metscher's review of Explore Evolution which is freely available here.*
If you don't know how an ad hominem argument looks like you should read Luskin's post.
Because Metscher cites Lenny Flank's take on EE and Lenny Flank had said some things about creationists Luskin didn't like (Luskin doesn't provide a link to Metscher's article or Lenny Flank's treatment of EE, instead he links to two comments Flank left at the Panda's Thumb two years ago) none of Metscher's critic points merit any consideration.
| Quote | | Demonstrating that the paranoid style** isn’t just limited to American politics, Austrian biologist Brian Metscher has adopted Lenny Flank’s advice on avoiding discussing the science and painting his intellectual opponents as extremists who are conspiring to skirt the law. I suspect that Metscher’s outlandish rhetoric in his attack on EE would make Lenny Flank proud. Let’s just hope that Metscher doesn’t decide to adopt Flank’s militant recommendations for defending evolution. |
I also liked this bit:
| Quote | | Metscher doesn’t specify precisely what those [creationist] “talking points” are, but if EE is so wrong, surely Metscher can give us a scholarly refutation of the book. |
But of course. No problem there. Surely everyone can refute an entire book in a single article.
* If that link doesn't work, try this one and scroll down to the book review section. The article is called: "Postcards from The Wedge: review and commentary on Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism by Steven C. Meyer et al.". Metscher B., Evolution and Development Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 124-125
** Obviously, a link to an article from 1964 about "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" is more important than a link to the review that is "discussed".
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"Random mutations, if they are truly random, will affect, and potentially damage, any aspect of the organism, [...]
Thus, a realistic [computer] simulation [of evolution] would allow the program, OS, and hardware to be affected in a random fashion." GilDodgen, Frilly shirt owner
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