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But they cited no evidence, and made no references to any scientific research.
Dr. John West, a political scientist at Seattle Pacific University, is senior fellow at Discovery Institute. He says these political responses to scientific issues are getting nasty.
Indeed, there is a lot of antagonism and condescension on campuses against ID, and students are disparaged and degraded upon the basis that they espouse a different theory, but it's also taking place all around us including FR. The fear of learning something which might jeopardize the existence of the current notion isn't new. We all know about past persecutions, and as Dr. West pointed out, "hate speech, speech codes, outright persecution, and discrimination is taking place on our college campuses, in our school districts, against both students and teachers and faculty members.”
Silence your opponent not with evidence or scientific facts, but with a paradigm of insults and smarmy remarks. I, on the other hand, want to learn as much as I can, especially when:
Consider the workings of the genetic code. That code produces all kinds of molecular machines, plus all the other components of life. ID advocates say that to believe those components are just Darwinian accidents takes a blind faith in the creativity of dumb molecules.
Darwin said that such complexity must have developed piece by piece. Behe said that is bunk. All the pieces must be in place at the same time or the motorized tails would never work.
Darwin's gradual theory has no good explanation for that -- ID does.