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Google Trends: Come ON

Category: Commentary
Posted on: May 12, 2006 4:13 PM, by Maggie Wittlin

Steve Petermann of ID blog Telic Thoughts just posted (warning, link to ID blog) on Google Trends. He says:

Check this one out. Looks like interest in Darwinism has stayed pretty steady but ID had a big jump around the Dover trial. Also since then it doesn't appear that ID has dropped back to its earlier levels.

This is great news! Despite the insistence of the ID movement on using the word "Darwinism," it apparently hasn't actually caught on. Woo-hoo! Oh, and in case you're curious, the graph of ID vs. evolution shows there's no contest in terms of their popularity or the magnitude (not percentage change) of the spike around the Dover trial. Not that Google Trends validates a theory (or non-theory), but if you want to play popularity, I'll take a small bite.

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How typical that an IDiot would present a false comparison. Pretty much likemost of crationist "science".

Posted by: CanuckRob | May 12, 2006 04:22 PM

Also wrth looking at intellignet desing v. evolution and comparing to creatinism v. evolution, the tow are virtually identical in trending, just like they are identical in the mind of Judge Jones (and every other intelligent person on the planet)

Posted by: CanuckRob | May 12, 2006 04:28 PM

>Also since then it doesn't appear that ID has dropped back to its earlier levels.

As meaningless as the correlation between the phases of the moon and the number of times I get up to piss in the middle of the night.

Posted by: TrekJunkie | May 12, 2006 04:40 PM

"If we lose 100 more court cases, ID will match evolution's Google search volume. Victory!"

Posted by: Foggg | May 12, 2006 05:03 PM

Google trends is fun.

Posted by: britt | May 17, 2006 02:59 PM