The Discovery Institute, whose stated mission is to “discover and promote ideas in the common sense tradition of representative government, the free market and individual liberty” has created a new site dedicated solely to providing accurate information on ID from the organizations that promote it. Here’s their intro blurb for intelligentdesign.org:
Intelligentdesign.org is not a Discovery Institute focused website, but rather a site that highlights the websites owned and operated by a number of pro-ID organizations, scientists and scholars, such as the Intelligent Design Network, Access Research Network, and Uncommondescent.com.
One of the main resources at intelligentdesign.org is a list of ID FAQs maintained by different ID organizations. Defining what intelligent design theory is all about is an important function of the site, which Crowther [director of communications for the Center for Science & Culture at Discovery Institute] hopes will help to counter the many misrepresentations of the theory that can be found online.
‘Unfortunately, people who search for information about intelligent design on the internet are often finding only websites that attack the theory and give out false definitions and explanations of what it is,’Â said Crowther. ‘We wanted to provide a site that would lead people to accurate information about what the theory of intelligent design is, and what sorts of scientific and scholarly research is being done by design proponents.’
If, like the gleeful secularists and anti-christians who loved the <s>ACLU's</s> Judge Jones' overreaching, inaccurate, and bad decision in Dover, the NOVA program fails to see the problems with the case, I will be disappointed.
However, NOVA, which is in general a great series, is unabashedly pro-evolution, so I expect it to be as biased as ever.
For the ID side of the story (Behe refused to participate), you can listen to PBS, Darwin and Dover: an Interview with Phillip Johnson – Johnson did appear in the program, representing the ID camp.
BTW, here’s some responses by The Discovery Institute:
NOVA Program on Intelligent Design Biased
– PBS has a history of anti-id bias
– they have handled interviews disingenously in the past
– there is an internal memo stating their purposeful approach to trying to discredit id rather than do non-yellow journalism on this subject
PBS Encouraging Teachers to Violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause
– here’s how leftist tolerance works – by squelching opposing speech
A telling cartoon
Phillip Johnson, the “father of intelligent design,” will be featured. I love this quote:
“If there were that great a commonality between chimps and humans, it ought to be relatively easy to breed chimps and come up with a human being, or by genetic engineering to change a chimp into a human. We ought to see humans occasionally being born to chimps or perhaps chimps born into human families.”
This should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind as to how retarded creationists are.
I think you miss his point entirely. The fact that you can NOT view such things indicates that all such assumptions are pure conjecture, not empirical science.
More feedback on the pbs nonsense
Is it over after Dover?