William Dembski is one of the IDiots and one of its most notable, public, etc. proponents. ID is a pseudo-science that claims life is too complex to have arisen at random. That means, apparently, that it must have been designed. Sound like anything you’ve heard of prior to discovering ID? Thought so.
In other words, life couldn’t evolve, so god did it. But thanks to a 1987 court ruling on creation science, any mention of god or creation is completely forbidden, so they had to think of a new way to get creationism into class. So they took a creation science textbook, later known as Of Pandas and People, and put the buzz words “intelligent design” in the place of all mentions of creation, creationism, etc.
In the 2005 Kitzmiller vs. Dover trial, early editions of this textbook were released that show, in the IDeist community’s own words, that creationism is the same as ID. They changed no definitions, just words: creation to intelligent design, creationism to intelligent design, creationists to design proponents.
The scientific community is dealing with some deceitful people. Their only arguments are religious based ones and yet claim that their argument is one of scientific credulity.
These people are well known, and I’ve blogged about them many times, but this time has a very valid purpose. On the blog Uncommon Descent, they call everyone in the scientific community evolutionists and darwinists, neither of which exist as official scientific terminology. Yet they propagate these creationists buzzwords, and others, as well as calling evolution a religion for the purpose of getting ID recognized as science.
I propose today that we retaliate by calling intelligent design the following: IDeism, Dembskism, and their proponents IDiots, as they’re doing the same thing to us.
My preferred names for them: evolution-deniers, cdesign proponentsists, IDots, the guys who believe in the magic talking snake
Good post, but only 1 comment…now 2. You should have “whored yourself out” as you put it. Fame will elude you unless you grab the bulls by the balls when they’re in your face…or something like that.
Look, I don’t really want all the fame in the world if it lasts fifteen minutes. I wanted to give everyone a chance to look around, and they did. I expected to be below 100 hits a day by now but I’m still over 300, and that’s good since fewer and fewer are from PZ’s blog.
Most are from email, feeds, etc.