[tfecw]

"IOW, the 400 creationist scientists are a mere ...."

Well 3 times I went through that article and didn't see any reference to creationist "scientists" Can you please point that out, my eyes must be failing me today?

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

The way I see it, more and more scientists are speaking out because in today's environment it's *okay* to do so (thanks in part to the ID movement). I fully expect more to do so in the next few years.

[eastsider]

I infered the phrase "creationist scientists" from the first sentence of the article:

More than 400 scientists have signed onto a growing list from all disciplines who are “skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.”

[Mylo]

Those 400 "scientists" were probably issued "credentials" from the Discovery Institute or other whack job outfits; or were social "scientists" or such.

I'm sure one could find 400 reputable BIOLOGICAL Scientists (what a physicist or chemist brings to the table on a discussion of Evolution and the theory of natural selection is limited at best) who ascribe to some sort of "intelligent" design theory and have some reservation about Darwin's theory of natural selection; but that is 400 out of what....400,000?