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To: Heartlander
In this article by Dembski: Becoming a Disciplined Science: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Reality Check for ID, he makes several interesting statements:
We have done amazingly well in creating a cultural movement, but we must not exaggerate ID's successes on the scientific front. ... An intellectual movement cannot sustain itself on media attention. ... Because of ID's outstanding success at gaining a cultural hearing, the scientific research part of ID is now lagging behind.

One of the marks of a disciplined science is that it possesses an easily accessible catalog of fundamental facts. Think of the magnificent star cluster catalogs in astrophysics. ID needs something like this.

Intelligent design as a scientific and intellectual project has many sympathizers but few workers. The scholarly side of our movement at this time consists of a handful of academics and independent researchers.

A problem we now face with intelligent design is that even if the educational mainstream opened its arms to us (don't hold your breath), we have no sustained course of study to give them.


12 posted on 11/03/2003 12:37:13 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
A problem we now face with intelligent design is that even if the educational mainstream opened its arms to us (don't hold your breath), we have no sustained course of study to give them.

But they want into the high schools anyway to tell the kids the sustained course of study they will get is all wrong.

15 posted on 11/03/2003 12:44:24 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: PatrickHenry
We have done amazingly well in creating a cultural movement, but we must not exaggerate ID's successes on the scientific front

Successes? I can't even find a single paper (peer reviewed or otherwise) on medline.

18 posted on 11/03/2003 1:00:19 PM PST by RightWingNilla
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