Comments on: Taking Questions from Students

By: Austringer

Austringer — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:33:49 +0000

There's the less flatulent version at the "Overwhelming Evidence" site. There's Ed Brayton's on-target commentary about Dembski's "street theater" episode. Yeah, Dembski complaining about "respectful treatment" is quite a stretch.

By: j a higginbotham

j a higginbotham — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:25:53 +0000

> Dembski has in fact mentioned “respectful treatment” in so many words.

I couldn’t get past this. You wouldn’t have a link to the Dover fart video Demski produced? Or any of his other petulant childish outbursts?

By: JoeBuddha

JoeBuddha — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:52:52 +0000

On the other hand, I have no reservation in pointing out the rampant falsehoods promulgated from the religious antievolution movement.

I don’t think that can be stressed enough: That people, coming from a tradition that theoretically prefers truth and despises lies and deception, continually lie about science and evidence. You can’t call it a “mistake”, because they’ll acknowledge an error in a debate and then repeat it at a later time as if it had never been challenged. Oh, and I believe we should stop calling them “falsehoods” and insist on “lies”.

By: Austringer

Austringer — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:02:17 +0000

The exchange is continuing. BJRay has acknowledged responses and has promised a reply.

By: eric

eric — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:09:02 +0000

Your 3rd and 4th responses actually dovetail quite nicely into a single point: scientists value participation in the peer review process because we accept that people behave somewhat irrationally, are biased and make mistakes.

By: Karen S.

Karen S. — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:23:50 +0000

Very interesting! What was BJRay’s final reply, or is this exchange still going on?

By: John Farrell

John Farrell — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:40:03 +0000

An excellent exchange. Should be a handout in every freshman biology class.