Let's see them squirm their way away from this one...or are people too stupid to notice? I'm just not sure anymore.
On the Discovery Institute (the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture) website, they list the supposedly-“peer reviewed” scientific journal literature of their ID-iotic proponents. Well, I found, in one case, they certainly found a "friend" on the editorial board at one of these publications...and he is certainly peerless. The list:
- Stephen Meyer, “The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories” Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 117 (2004):213-239.
- Lönnig, W.-E. Dynamic genomes, morphological stasis and the origin of irreducible complexity, Dynamical Genetics, Pp. 101-119. PDF HTML
- Jonathan Wells, “Do Centrioles Generate a Polar Ejection Force? Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum 98 (2005): 37-62. Abstract
- Scott Minnich and Stephen C. Meyer, “Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits,” Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Design & Nature, Rhodes Greece, edited by M.W. Collins and C.A. Brebbia (WIT Press, 2004).
When we visit the journal’s website, the editorial board includes, guess who? None other than Giuseppe Sermonti.You know? The guy who wrote “Why is a Fly not a Horse?”…a book which claimed, among other things, that insects appeared in the fossil record before plants, and specifically that leaf insects appeared before leaves. Quite a laugh riot.
Paleontologists everywhere, botanists and entomologists alike, shared a puzzled, “WTF,” look, then went back to characterizing the factual evidence (tongue-in-cheek...as if they read the damn thing).
Panda’s Thumb called the DI out on this blatant stack of lies, since their front man Behe repeated them, and since the DI Press published a book full of lies. No surprise that only crickets chirp in response. So, PT then published a pretty extensive critical review of the book, one in which the reviewer, (a fellow Italian) Dr. Andrea Bottaro, clearly shows Giuseppe Sermonti’s fallacies and factual errors for what they are.
Anyways, Sermonti recently posted an article which I almost fell out of my seat as I read.
Why, you ask? Simple: in this article, posted right on the CRSC website, Sermonti makes a case for Genesis being scientific!!
For the Darwinists, who in Kansas have abandoned the field, anyone who opposes Darwin is a poorly concealed religious fundamentalist. In Italy, by the way, the religious argument has never come into the debate; in fact, said debate does not even exist, as the Darwinists are much too convinced that truth lies with them to wish to waste time discussing the matter. G.L. Schroeder, in his book Genesis and the Big Bang (1991), thoroughly documents how the Book of Genesis is not a mythological cosmogony or a fairytale for children, as the Darwinists define it, but rather an insightful and scientific account, comparable to modern cosmology. "They reflect the same reality, described in different terminology."…Wow.
Genesis and Natural Selection
One difference between the two pictures deserves attention: in the Bible the great classes of creatures appear successively and autonomously; in the theory of evolution, each gradually derives from the transformation of the preceding one: from fish, amphibians; from amphibians, reptiles; from reptiles, mammals. The process of transformation of the classes is for Darwin a logical necessity, in order to avoid recourse to successive emergencies that might require repeated interventions of the Creator.
In two words, the theory of evolution is a revision of Genesis, or, in religious terms, a Biblical heresy. Genesis proclaims: "God said: 'Let there be light…Let there be a firmament…Let the waters…gather into one one…Let the earth bring forth grass…Let there be lights in the firmament…Let the waters bring forth abundantly…Let the earth bring forth creatures of every kind…Let us make man…" Darwin concludes his Origin of Species with a hymn to Life: "…with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one…" Atheism is an afterthought and not an inevitable consequence of Darwinism.
What I guess I find so gee-golly-damn amazing is that the Discovery Institute, ever so proper about keeping itself all science and no creationism…even published this. I mean, these guys fall all over themselves trying to convince thinking people that book titles like Dembski's, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology...
That those books don't mean anything...
They even linked to it on their front page. Of course, I guess one must consider that Sermonti’s book was published by their press (since no academic publisher in Europe would touch it with a ten foot pole). And thus, they may feel they actually have to stand behind this guy's "facts" and "definition of science..." I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they pulled this one from their website. They're gonna definitely get some fallout over it.
No worry, as I have already saved it as a backup just in case...
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