{"id":241,"date":"2007-07-09T07:11:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=241"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:51:24","slug":"dembski-misses-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Dembski misses the point"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Dembski over at his Uncommon Descent blog notices\u00c2\u00a0the Cheri Yecke controversy<\/a>, but completely misses the point. In his post he blames Dr. Elsberry for stirring the pot. Ummmmm … what? Did he not read the actual article? It’s Yecke who “stirred the pot,” not Elsberry. Elsberry was responding to Yecke’s hiring ReputationDefender to go after him. Notice how Dembski chooses not to mention ReputationDefender, or any part of the article’s main thrust.<\/p>\n

And then his merry band of commenters whine about reporters not understanding ID. This is a classic comment that definitely speaks for itself:<\/p>\n

We all come diverse backgrounds and none of our thinking is tainted by currently practiced scientific thinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hat tip to Red State Rabble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Dembski over at his Uncommon Descent blog notices\u00c2\u00a0the Cheri Yecke controversy, but completely misses the point. In his post he blames Dr. Elsberry for stirring the pot. Ummmmm … what? Did he not read the actual article? It’s Yecke … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-3T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":232,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=232","url_meta":{"origin":241,"position":0},"title":"Yecke Information Challenged","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 25, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"-- Updated: Story about Yecke in the St. Petersburg Times.\u00c2\u00a0-- The following press release has been sent out to Florida media: Internet Company Tries to Sanitize Old Information about Yecke Dr. Cheri Pierson Yecke, K-12 chancellor for Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department of Education, has apparently hired a company called ReputationDefender to search\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Alert"","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1139,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1139","url_meta":{"origin":241,"position":1},"title":"Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Intelligent Design","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"November 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A few years ago, Jonathan Wells came up with his 10 questions to ask your biology teacher \u00e2\u20ac\u201d they were largely drawn from his book \"Icons of Evolution\" and were promptly rebutted by the NCSE. 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