Steve,
Do you have any thoughts in this article? Or anyone else
It purports backtracking by the likes of Behe and Dembski.
The New Yorker: Fact: "Biologists aren't alarmed by intelligent designÂs arrival in Dover and elsewhere because they have all sworn allegiance to atheistic materialism; theyÂre alarmed because intelligent design is junk science. Meanwhile, more than eighty per cent of Americans say that God either created human beings in their present form or guided their development. As a succession of intelligent-design proponents appeared before the Kansas State Board of Education earlier this month, it was possible to wonder whether the movementÂs scientific coherence was beside the point. Intelligent design has come this far by faith. "
Allen Orr is a long-standing critic of ID theory. He and the fellows at the Discovery Institute have crossed swords many times in the past.
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Responses have been written to Allen Orr's article. See, for example, this article from the IDEA Center web site:
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And here's William Dembski's response from his blog:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/103
Jason Engwer
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New Testament Research Ministries
http://www.ntrmin.org