RE: Did you miss the PR campaign part of it? It’s not about science, it’s about a religious movement. Note “teach the controversy.” There was no scientific controversy over natural selection in general before, but through PR they created the perception of one, then tell people it should be taught.
Let’s say there was a PR campaign, SO?
If you have something you feel is significant to share, why not advertise it or share it ?
Richard Dawkins and his cohorts support the atheistic campaign to “educate” people regarding the “falsity” of the story behind Christmas. Heck , there are posters being put up right now even as we speak. That’s Dawkins’ right. What he does with his own extra-academic time is his business.
SEE HERE FOR INSTANCE :
Should we demand that he or his cohorts (many in academia) be fired because of it ? When he calls all people who believe in God delusional, should we demand that his position be terminated ? NOPE.
I want MORE DEBATE, MORE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, MORE OPEN INQUIRY, NOT SILENCING OF PEOPLE I DISAGREE WITH.
if you or anybody else do not share their conviction, you don’t have to adopt it.
And what does that have to do with one’s work in the academy ? Is he forcing his students or colleague to his belief ? If he is, then there is a case for dismissal, but not until.
One’s extra-currciular activities should be one’s business.
RE: The Wedge Document was originally supposed to be “top secret” and not for distribution outside the Institute
The Wedge Document was NEVER top secret. I’ve read it as early as when Dr. Philip Johnson authored its first draft and even wrote a book on it.
You can disagree with it, attack it, or debate its merits, but please, spare me your conspiracy theories.
This is exactly the problem. You are mixing a social, political and religious agenda with science, exactly what the Wedge Document does. Such agendas corrupt the science, see Global Warming.
I want MORE DEBATE, MORE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, MORE OPEN INQUIRY, NOT SILENCING OF PEOPLE I DISAGREE WITH.
I agree, and that's going on as we speak. The problem is that since creationism and ID have not succeeded in the scientific community on their merits as ideas, their proponents have changed to non-scientific tactics while still pushing them as science.
The Wedge Document was NEVER top secret. I’ve read it as early as when Dr. Philip Johnson authored its first draft and even wrote a book on it.
When was that?