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Re: Gee,
by JGC

It's worth noting that Berlinski is a Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, whose explicitly stated goal is “To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies” and “To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God”,.

Berlinksi has never published articles critical of evolution and cosmology in peer-reviewed scientific journals, only in the popular press. In his "Deniable Darwin' his criticism consists of typical creationist talking points long rebutted (including the suggestion that evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics), irrelevant points, and rhetorical fallacies such as argument from personal preference.

In short, he's contibuted absolutely nothing to any discussion re: the origins of biological diversity but smoke and mirrors--and second-hand smoke at that.

No wonder cd and nano like him so much.

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