More evidence of the Darwin lobby harming scientific progress

See How biologists who want science to be worth their trouble can free themselves from the Darwin lobby:

The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a pro-Darwin lobby group that aggressively opposes creationism ,intelligent design, and even scientific criticisms of Darwinism in biology classrooms. In 2002, the pro-ID Discovery Institute published summaries of 44 articles in scientific journals and books that “represent dissenting viewpoints that challenge one or another aspect of neo-Darwinism (the prevailing theory of evolution taught in biology textbooks), discuss problems that evolutionary theory faces, or suggest important new lines of evidence that biology must consider when explaining origins.” The NCSE then contacted the authors of the articles to ask whether they “considered their work to provide scientific evidence for intelligent design” or “considered their work to provide scientific evidence against evolution.” – (p. 100-101)

Of course, the Discovery Institute never claimed that the 44 articles provided “scientific evidence for intelligent design” or “scientific evidence against evolution” … Nevertheless, the NCSE’s misleading questionnaire evoked angry responses from some of the articles’ authors who were understandably indignant at the suggestion that they were pro-ID or anti-evolution.

Even if critics of Darwinism are explicitly anti-Intelligent Design and/or atheists the Darwin lobby still sees them as enemies and wants to intimidate their research and publications.  Their pathetic, thin-skinned approach gets in the way of real science.

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4 thoughts on “More evidence of the Darwin lobby harming scientific progress

  1. Those who teach Darwinism seem to be approaching a religious fervor today. They cannot tolerate opposition, which is unscientific, yet they call those who oppose them, ‘anti-science’.

    • Hi jlue — yes, exactly! They have to appeal to the government to enforce their dogma, which should be a sign to them that they may be on the wrong side of the facts.

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