Intelligent Design
stcynic | September 8, 2004Given the conversation lately over the question of whether ID is creationism, I thought it would be a good idea to reprint an earlier post from January on the subject of the prevarications of ID:
It is appropriate that in the month of January, I have made so many entries about the Intelligent Design movement. January is named for Janus, the Roman god of gates, often depicted as having two faces. The more I study the ID movement, the more convinced I am that Janus is the perfect symbol for it. Indeed, the two-faced nature of the ID movement is, ironically, by design. This was the nature of the…
stcynic | September 7, 2004In the comments on a post below, Dan Ray suggested that perhaps Stephen Meyer's article on ID in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington had gotten into that journal by "questionable means". He was apparently right. The editor at the time, Richard Sternberg, apparently violated the journal's procedures for reviewing manuscripts by not showing it to any of the journal's associate editors. The PBSW procedures for contribution state:
"Manuscripts are reviewed by a board of Associate Editors and appropriate referees."
But according to a statement released today by the board of…