How many times have we heard of the huge conspiracy that Creationism/Intelligent Design are being held back by 'Big Science'. I remember comments along those line in Ben Stein's abortion "No Intelligence Allowed", I've seen comment after comments online in posts in too many places to list. Just yesterday I posted about an article on Uncommon Descent that was quite explicit in it's accusation. . . well, here, you read it:
"Darwin’s followers have spent so much time stamping out dissent, they haven’t noticed the looming pile of contrary evidence, let alone done much to address it."(Creationists know more about Evolution?)Now, when asked for examples of this 'stamping out of dissent', I have yet to get a credible answer from anyone. Most often you get the stories of Guillermo Gonzales, John Freshwater, or Richard Sternberg . . . of course anyone familiar with any of those cases know they weren't silenced in any form. Just as a reminder, Gonzalez was denied tenure for failing in his responsibilities, Freshwater was fired for abusing students AND teaching religion instead of science, and the infamous Sternberg Peer Review Controversy. I hear about the Discovery Institute whining about not being able to be published in credible science journals, but are they actually submitting to those journals? If they were, why would they have to put forth their own journal?
In any event, I have yet to see any credible evidence that Scientists are trying to silence anything about Creationism/Intelligent Design. Oh yes, they are trying to keep it from being taught as a scientific theory in science class, just like they would argue against tarot cards and astrology. But any credible examples or trying to stamp out dissent? Not a one!
However, is the opposite true? Here is what happened just this evening:
I have mentioned before that I get news alerts from Google about a number of subjects that I am interested in. This evening I received this alert:
I clicked on the link and got a page that surprised me. I was tempted to post a copy of the page, but that would violate the terms of use for that particular website. So, just let me say when I clicked I ended up at a site that called itself 'Godlike Productions' with a message that said: "Sorry, that message is no longer in the database."
My first instinct was to think the link from Google was bad. But then I looked at the site. "Godlike Productions" and decided to dig a touch deeper. So, I did what anyone would do and did a search on the site for Kenneth Miller. I figured that should get me to the right place. The search returned no results. Hmmmm!
Hmm, now I am more than a little suspicious. I'm familiar with the Google Alerts after using them for years and found them to be very reliable. So, just out of curiosity, I search for 'Intelligent Design', still hopeful of finding the original post, but my hope was much less than my first search effort. There were a bunch of data returned from that search, but funny, all of it looked like it was favorable to Intelligent Design. Imagine that!
OK, let's recap. Scientists get accused all the time of suppressing Creationism and Intelligent Design and yet when a website called 'Godlike Productions' apparently published a comment critical to ID and a link to a video by Dr. Kenneth Miller . . .and after a brief period of time, albeit long enough to get picked up by one of Google searches, it disappears completely.
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Not surprised at all. The evilution police have been busy. I've never really trusted Google anyway. The Chinese are always screwing with them.
ReplyDeleteJack, am I misunderstanding, or are you saying that you are not surprised that the evolution police erased a comment and weblink to a video that was critical of Intelligent Design? Huh?
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