Monday, December 18, 2006

Interesting Exchange

As much as I admire William Dembski's work on ID, he does have the tendency to occasionally do something geeky that lands him in hot water (viz: his "Waterloo" e-mail that caused all kinds of trouble at Baylor). His latest dorky act has led him to publish an e-mail exchange he had six years ago with Richard Dawkins. Although I don't think that Dawkins' publishing of Dembski's recent e-mail warrants this, largely since Dembski's recent e-mail was merely calling attention to a dorky prank in a dorky way, the exchange from 2000 is very interesting, in that it shows direct intellectual sparring between two of the most important figures on either side of the ID/Darwinist divide.

Anyway, all of this dorkiness reminds me of a recent thought: When you look at all the chest beating of atheist scientists who want religion stamped out so that people can be ruled by their intellectual scientific betters, just remember. You are merely witnessing the attempted revenge of the "chess club poindexters" from high school. They'll show everyone!

But sometimes there can be infighting between the poindexters...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Atheist scientists tend to be liberals in favor of disgusting levels of wealth redistribution. Religious anti-scientists tend to be conservatives in favor of disgusting levels of morality jurisdiction. I'll pass on both, thanks.

Ever since Judge Jones's decision in Kitzmiller v Dover, the ID side has been shooting themselves in the foot much more often than they have done anything good for their position. Digging up six-year-old email seems to be another instance of this.