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Author Topic:   Intelligent Design Class to be taught at Cornell University
melatonin
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Message 6 of 168 (306298)
04-24-2006 12:37 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Percy
04-24-2006 10:38 AM


The academic who is teaching it (Allen MacNeil) is quite anti-ID and has been publicly critical of Dembski (he called him a liar I think)
Here's his blog, it has course outline etc
THE EVOLUTION LIST
and in this pandas thumb entry, Allen MacNeil talks about the course.
Page not found · GitHub Pages
The ID side did originally hold this up as a success, until they understood how MacNeil was approaching the course.

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melatonin
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Message 7 of 168 (306300)
04-24-2006 12:56 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by sidelined
04-24-2006 11:16 AM


Re: IDEA club
Dembski talks of 30 IDEA clubs around the US. They used to have a christian only officer rule until earlier this year. Guess it kinda caused problems for the "ID is not religious" argument. The officer at Cornell is a junior triple major (maths/chem/phys). Here's one of her press releases courtesy of the IDEA center...
Intelligent Design (ID) is a scientific theory which holds that certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, and are not the result of an undirected, chance-based process such as Darwinian evolution. It follows the principles of the scientific method, scorns the biases of either religion or naturalism, and attempts to follow all the available evidence to a valid conclusion. ID is testable and falsifiable, and so far its predictions have repeatedly been shown accurate.
The IDEA Club at Cornell holds that the problems with Neo-Darwinian evolution can no longer be ignored, and it is time for true research and debate about the issues surrounding the beginnings of life to take place at universities across the country.
Cornell Students Critique President Rawlings' Anti-ID Speech
Lucky she isn't a biology major then.
The IDEA advisory board is made up of the likes of Behe, Dembski, Luskin -but apparently (according to them) they receive no funding from the DI.
Edited to add linky
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melatonin
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Message 10 of 168 (306311)
04-24-2006 3:17 PM
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04-24-2006 2:28 PM


Re: IDEA club
I like the way she put it simple language for you. heh.
She sounds quite a fan of Dembski with all the 'information' blah - explains her liking of tautologies...
a system exhibits specified complexity if it's complex and you can describe it without looking at the system to derive the description
Good Math/Bad Math: April 2006
The good math, bad math blog pulls apart a few of dembski's arguments.
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