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Re: One other thing
by silent.observer
JV-12:
silent.observer:

Come now, JV-12. Surely these credentialed scientific experts do publish their findings that render the ToE unto a "joke" in peer-reviewed journals that you can cite? They don't just write popular creationist fiction, do they?

This is why your fallacious appeal to authority fails.

Oh, please, Silent Observer, from just the one article below one gets the impression that ID scientists will not even be taken seriously in peer-reviewed journals, much less creationists. Or haven’t you noticed the bias?

Ok, you have one article from WorldNetDaily that tries to make a case for bias. I leave it to the curious reader to check out that site to see where the bias lies.

As for the scientific article itself, the wiki article on the controversy wraps up all the relevant info debunking it in one package. The article you cite was the carefully crafted, publicized, and exploited tool of creationists.

As one of the Discovery Institute intelligent design campaigns, the Institute conducted extensive lobbying and public relations efforts on Sternberg's behalf, including arranging for articles by Institute Fellows to be published in the mainstream press.[44][45][46][47] A film released in April 2008 featuring Ben Stein, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, discusses the Sternberg controversy, but misrepresents several key facts.[41]

Oh, and dating back to November 2005, a bit later than your citation...

In a November, 2005 National Public Radio report on the affair Sternberg stated "I'm not an evangelical, I'm not a fundamentalist, I'm not a young earth creationist, I'm not a theistic evolutionist". Sternberg said McVay "related to me, 'the Smithsonian Institution's reaction to your publishing the Meyer article was far worse than you imagined'." Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR's religion reporter, said Sternberg himself believes intelligent design is "fatally flawed."[37]

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