[Southack]

"For the same reason, the journal will not publish a rebuttal to the thesis of the paper, the superiority of intelligent design (ID) over evolution as an explanation of the emergence of Cambrian body-plan diversity."

They claim that they "will not," but the reality is that they "can not" scientifically rebut the paper.

[voltaires_zit]

> They claim that they "will not," but the reality is that
> they "can not" scientifically rebut the paper.

No, it's "will not", because it should never have been published there in the first place. Publishing it was analagous to publishing a paper on "UFOs and Alien Influences on the Construction of the Pyramids" in Biblical Archaeology Review.

Steyn's paper was worked over in a number of places, as was the previous paper from which he cribbed most of the material. For a pretty thorough critique of why, in addition to being inappropriate in the Society's journal, it was not terribly good science, read on:

http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2004/08/meyers_hopeless_1.html