Dammit! It is OUR job to frame!

There is something bitterly ironic about a muppet like Dembski complaining about the Nisbet & Mooney piece on "framing science." His complaint is, after all, coming from a man who accepts money from a group who coin glib phrases like "teach the controversy" and talk about "a new science for a new century". Sheech!

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Not to mention that his reference to the "atheist magazine Seed" is designed to equate atheism and evolution (or perhaps atheism and science, or maybe just atheism and anyone who disagrees with Dembski).

No surprise then, that like his god, Demski is an iron.

By JohnnieCanuck (not verified) on 12 Apr 2007 #permalink