Those pesky creationists! The way you talk, one would hardly know you were Catholic!
This is, of course, false.
The folks at the NCSE seem to embrace peer-review only when it confirms their pre-determined conclusions,” adds West. “Their goal isn’t peer-review, it’s censorship. They want to squelch the scientific debate. Fortunately, there are lots of scientists who still support free discussion.”
West also points out the spurious nature of the NCSE’s previous claim that supporters of intelligent design have not produced peer-reviewed publications. Mathematician William Dembski published a peer-reviewed monograph with Cambridge University Press, The Design Inference (1998). Biochemist Michael Behe has published his ideas recently in the peer-reviewed science journal Protein Science as well as previously in Philosophy of Science (2000) and And Stephen Meyer edited an entire volume of peer-reviewed articles with Michigan State University Press, Darwinism, Design, and Public Education (2003).
Ahem. Check again:
Meyer's ID Paper Embarrassing Society Which Published It
by Glenn Branch
email listsNCSE's Glenn Branch reports that the Biological Society of Washington has distanced itself from Steven Meyer's ID-friendly paper, strongly implying that it somehow got by their usual peer review process.