Posted on 12/12/2006 8:52:13 AM PST by editor-surveyor
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
A historic judicial ruling against intelligent design theory hailed as a "broad, stinging rebuke" and a "masterpiece of wit, scholarship and clear thinking" actually was "cut and pasted" from a brief by ACLU lawyers and includes many of their provable errors, contends the Seattle-based Discovery Institute.
One year ago, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones' 139-page ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover declared unconstitutional a school board policy that required students of a ninth-grade biology class in the Dover Area School District to hear a one-minute statement that said evolution is a theory and intelligent design "is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view."
University of Chicago geophysicist Raymond Pierrehumbert called Jones' ruling a "masterpiece of wit, scholarship and clear thinking" while lawyer Ed Darrell said the judge "wrote a masterful decision, a model for law students on how to decide a case based on the evidence presented." Time magazine said the ruling made Jones one of "the world's most influential people" in the category of "scientists and thinkers."
But an analysis by the Discovery Institute, the leading promoter of intelligent design, concludes about 90.9 percent – 5,458 words of his 6,004-word section on intelligent design as science – was taken virtually verbatim from the ACLU's proposed "Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law" submitted to Jones nearly a month before his ruling.
"Judge Jones's decision wasn't a masterpiece of scholarship. It was a masterpiece of cut-and-paste," said the Discovery Institute's John West in a phone conference with reporters yesterday.
West is vice president for public policy and legal affairs for the group's Center for Science and Culture, which issued a statement saying, "The finding that most of Judge Jones' analysis of intelligent design was apparently not the product of his own original deliberative activity seriously undercuts the credibility of Judge Jones' examination of the scientific validity of intelligent design."
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Funny. Not a lot of discussion of this topic over at DC. Wonder why? For many of the Evo's, Judge Jones was a hero. :)
Here's a clue for you guys who think Behe is such a clown: he is so much smarter than you that you will never be able to comprehend how much smarter he is.
You mean his lies under oath (such as, for example, about peer review of his book) are actually truths on some higher plane than we mere mortals can perceive?
Then any ire should be directed at the talking heads who are saying that, although the ACLU content was only 16% of the decision's text.
First the numbers. As antiRepublicrat mentioned, we're talking about 91% of 25 pages of the 139 pages of the finding. Though probably more parts of this finding are copied and pasted from other sources, findings and so on, the ACLU's participation is less then 17%...
I had to agree with the ACLU in this particular case - and I don't agree with it more and more.
Bruce Green, director of Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law School, said although it is not typical for judges to adopt one side's proposed findings verbatim, they cannot face sanctions for doing so.
"There's not a rule that categorically forbids it," Green said. "Courts have sometimes criticized the practice, especially when it looks like the judge didn't do any independent thinking."
So, as it seems that the judge has done a lot of independent thinking, no problem here...
BTW: the "Daily Plagiarism bump" looses much of its appeal when it's plagiarized - one of the thingies which are cute the first time around :-)
Behe "lied" under oath just like Bush "lied" about WMD in Iraq.
Nonsense.
Behe claimed that his book Darwin's Black Box "received even more thorough peer review than a scholarly article in a refereed journal".
Problem is that his "reviewers" have denied hsi claims.
Nice try, though.
Well, I have read your Scriptures, but dont read it the very same way as do you...I would be willing to venture to say, that most Freepers, also do not read it the same as you do...most Freepers, at least the ones I have seen posting, will go to modern medical doctors and avail themselves of every modern medical technology...I am on one of the Freepmail lists, where prayer is requested, and it seems that the greater percentage of them are from folks who are having a medical crisis...and tho they are requesting prayer, they are also involved with doctors and modern medical technology...often we get updates of what the doctors said, or the progress that is being made in a conventional modern hospital...so tho they are requesting prayer for a medical problem, prayer is only one adjunct of their treatment..they are all seeking treatment and cures from modern medical doctors, and availing themselves of all modern medical technologis, and are requesting prayer to work alongside of that modern medical technology...
So, I would have to say, they also do not read these same Scriptures in the way that you do, believing these Scriptures are forbidding men, to avail themselves of modern medicine...
However, to each his own, and you have chosen to forego modern medical technology, and modern medicine, in favor to alternatives...I just see you as being in the minority here, and that others just dont read and understand these Scriptures in the same way as you do..
However, I am grateful that you have posted the Scriptures that you feel give support to your own beliefs...thanks...
I have sent you a private Freepmail, as you suggested, regarding surgery...thanks for that suggestion...
If the publisher handled the reviews, then that could have easily been an honest misunderstanding on Behe's part. It is also possible that his reviewers decided that they didn't want to get steamrolled by the PC machine and so decided to "abandon" Behe. When honest, open inquiry is as despised as much as it is among evolutionists, the climate of fear is such that you never know for sure what anyone really thinks.
By the way, do you realize that the gretest scientist who ever lived, Isaac Newton, believed in ID? See my webpage at http://RussP.us/IDscience.htm
and he had no idea of the General Relativity Theory, either.
-Isaac Newton
He probably didn't want the Galileo treatment. You know, the Inquisition...
Or maybe… The ACLU, Dawkins, anti-god freepers, et al. didn’t exist to ‘damn’ the implications he saw in his findings because of all his “religious speak”.
"and he had no idea of the General Relativity Theory, either."
So what? You may not believe this, but the Theory of Relativity is actually a relatively minor refinement of the Newtonian model of the world. Newton's model, on the other hand, was a profound step forward -- arguable the greatest scientific advancement of all time.
Incidentally, I read years ago that Newton's model may have actually been more accurate than we realize. His force equation is usually written as F = m dv/dt, but he actually wrote it as F = d(mv)/dt, which may be more accurate and capture the relativistic effect. But I am not a physicist, so don't hold me to that.
And you can back that up I suppose? That he conceded the existence of God out of fear for his safety?
If someone as brilliant as Newton could look at creation and come to the conclusion that there was a designer, I don't see why *scientists* have such a problem with ID and why they mock it and ridicule it so much. *IDiots* I believe is the term I've seen. That applies to Newton, then, too. Right? Scientists are willing to call someone of Newton's caliber an *idiot*?
I guess sometimes plagerism is OK, just like the ACLU is right...
Furthermore, if you want to continue to criticize the DI and id, while cheerleading the for the ACLU:
According to historian James Moore (1982), however, around 1840 a new movement of young middle-class reformers calling themselves "Naturalists" appeared. This group as young adults typically changed their creed from Christianity (which they felt was morally bankrupt) to one based on "Nature." They were "poets and lawyers, doctors and manufacturers, novelists and naturalists, engineers and politicians." The group included such well-known individuals as George Eliot, Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Francis Galton, J. A. Froude, G. H. Lewes, Charles Bray, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Tyndall, F. W. Newman, A. H. Clough, Harriet Martineau, F. P. Cobbe, and, of course, T. H. Huxley. Moore shows that the central feature of this new creed was the redefinition of human nature, society, order, law, evil, progress, purpose, authority, and nature itself in terms of the Naturalists' particular view of Nature, as opposed to the Christian Scriptures. In fact, they tended to attack the Christian Scriptures as the true source of societal evil. God, if he existed, was to be known only through the Nature which he made. Thus, according to Moore (1982) and Young (1980), "positivism" was not primarily a methodology for science, but a religious movement that sought to replace the cultural dominance of the Established Church.Added (The beginning of the anti-theism, anti-morality, and anti-discovery institute)
Charles Darwin launched his theory of biological change in this context. He proposed a mechanism for the appearance of new forms that did not depend on any pre-existing or exterior shaping forces. The environment became the only needed constraint. It was a theory of strategic importance for the Naturalists, particularly for the "X" club, Huxley's "Young Guard" party in science.
Added (The beginning of the actual political movement within science)
The significance of a mechanism can be understood only within the world views of its proponents. The "Naturalism" that initially proposed and supported Darwin's mechanism was both a world view and a social movement. These individuals viewed the world as autonomous, and the Darwinian mechanism as autonomous creator. The scientific members of this movement, Huxley's "X" club, were engaged in a successful campaign to wrest the university chairs in the sciences from the clergymen/naturalists of the Established Church. The ability of Darwinism to replace the divine with a natural process was a critical support.
Added (The beginning of the control from the ’new elite’ that must stifle any theistic belief that is at odds with their ‘fundamental’ natural doctrine )
- David L. Wilcox
So what does this ‘new science’ mean for all mankind?
DAWKINS: (snip)"…But yet we have this gathering together of genes into individual organisms. And that reminds me of the illusion of one mind, when actually there are lots of little mindlets in there, and the illusion of the soul of the white ant in the termite mound, where you have lots of little entities all pulling together to create an illusion of one. Am I right to think that the feeling that I have that I'm a single entity, who makes decisions, and loves and hates and has political views and things, that this is a kind of illusion that has come about because Darwinian selection found it expedient to create that illusion of unitariness rather than let us be a kind of society of mind?"PINKER: "It's a very interesting question. Yes, there is a sense in which the whole brain has interests in common in the way that say a whole body composed of genes with their own selfish motives has a single agenda. In the case of the genes the fact that their fates all depend on the survival of the body forces them to cooperate. In the case of the different parts of the brain, the fact that the brain ultimately controls a body that has to be in one place at one time may impose the need for some kind of circuit, presumably in the frontal lobes, that coordinates the different agendas of the different parts of the brain to ensure that the whole body goes in one direction. In How the Mind Works I alluded to a scene in the comedy movie All of Me in which Lily Tomlin's soul inhabits the left half of Steve Martin's body and he takes a few steps in one direction under his own control and then lurches in another direction with his pinkie extended while under the control of Lily Tomlin's spirit. That is what would happen if you had nothing but completely autonomous modules of the brain, each with its own goal. Since the body has to be in one place at one time, there might be a circuit that suppresses the conflicting motives…"(end snip)
You know, many criticize ’Christians’ here on this forum in the name of modern science, but what about the somewhat religious celebration in the name of Darwin Day with Their Wedge Document’:
*Darwinism rejects all supernatural phenomena and causations
*Darwinism refutes typology; i.e., that the world is stable and invariant
*Darwin's theory of natural selection made any invocation of teleology unnecessary
*Darwin accepted the universality of randomness and chance throughout the process of natural selection
*Darwin developed a new view of humanity and in turn, a new anthropocentrism
*Darwin provided a scientific foundation for ethics
‘Darwin Day’
BTW, here is the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) teaching evolution to the church.
…"as a blind man has no idea of colors," Newton wrote, "so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things." But the structure of the universe provides a clue, enabling us to "know (God) . . . by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes." As for the idea that science could lead to atheism, Newton dismissed it brusquely: "Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could [not] produce [the] variety of things" found on our diverse and ever-surprising world…
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