On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 10:55:27 AM UTC-6, jillery wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 05:39:25 -0800 (PST), Ron O <
roki...@cox.net>
> wrote:
> >
https://evolutionnews.org/2020/11/in-the-evolution-debate-how-truth-can-prevail/
> >
> >The ID perps have an article up claiming that the truth will prevail.
> >
> >QUOTE:
> >Paul Kecskemeti’s analysis perfectly describes the challenge faced by anyone who wishes to publicly tell the truth about the evidence for design.
> >END QUOTE:
> >
> >As expected the article doesn't have much about the "truth" that should be publicly told.
> >
> >Not even the ID perps can deal with their Top Six in a straightforward and honest manner. They put up the Top Six back in Nov. 2017 when they were running the last bait and switch scam on the Utah creationist rubes. This is claimed to be their best evidence for intelligent design.
> The problem with your cited article is deeper than that. It implies
> that anything promoted by mass media and governments, like evolution,
> is necessarily false, and anything not promoted by mass media and
> governments, like ID, is necessarily true. This is a political
> argument for a pseudo-skeptical and religious POV.
>
> People should rightfully be skeptical of those with power and/or
> authority. Such skepticism does not imply the authoritative and
> powerful are necessarily wrong, nor does it justify mindlessly
> accepting a contrarian position. Truth, to the degree it is truthful,
> can usually be demonstrated on its merits, by using the mind to seek
> meaningful questions and apply evidence and reason to their answers.
> If the human mind was designed for a purpose, pseudo-skepticism
> violates that purpose.
There is a lot wrong with what the ID perps are doing. Nando is demonstrating why they get away with it. The only IDiots left in existence are the ignorant, incompetent, and or dishonest. It has been that way for around 2 decades (next March will be 19 years since the bait and switch started to go down, and no IDiot has ever gotten any ID science since). After using the ID perp link you are asked to donate to the bogus cause. How sad is that for any IDiots left in existence. Dembski quit the ID scam, and claimed that he was going to go into education. Now some of those donations will likely go to Dembski as a board member of the Discovery Institute. He obviously has nothing to add to the ID scam, so IDiots are just paying him off for his past work on the creationist scam. None of Dembski's junk made it on the original Top Six. Sewell dropped Behe's IC out of the Top Six, so only the god-of-the-gaps denial junk that failed the scientific creationists over 30 years ago is left in the Top Six. The ID perps haven't contributed anything worth noting to the creationist effort by their own reckoning.