16 May 2008
Kenneth Miller: Darwin’s B.S. Artist
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Remember Thomas Henry Huxley — Darwin’s bulldog? Well, in Kenneth Miller, we’ve found Darwin’s B.S. Artist. For half-truths, misrepresentations, and sheer bloviating, this man is impossible to beat. His recent “review” (if it may be called that) of Expelled for the Boston Globe takes the cake. Let’s go through it, comparing his claims with reality:
CLAIM 1: He starts by calling intelligent design “repackaged creationism” that “can’t seem to produce any evidence”: “No data, no science, no experiments, just an attempt to sneak a narrow set of religious views into US classrooms.”
REALITY 1: How does science explain the origin of first life — the cell, which is the only life we know? Does Miller have an evolutionary explanation that requires no recourse to intelligence? The cell contains high-tech machinery. Why isn’t this evidence for design? Is the RNA World about to explain the origin of life? Hardly. Of course there’s evidence for intelligent design — if there weren’t, Miller wouldn’t be spending so much time denying it.
CLAIM 2: “Neither Steinberg [sic — Sternberg?] nor any of the other people featured as martyrs in ‘Expelled’ lost jobs as a result of their advocacy of Intelligent Design.” Read More »











