I’ve watched these discussions unfold for a long time now. In general the loosing side works very hard to change the subject to one in which they think they have an advantage. That is a good debating tactic, but not a good way of arriving at true answers. In this case, Expelled is about appalling behavior in American higher education, a place where there should be a free marketplace of ideas. Trying to derail the conversation into a debate about what kind of toothless snake-handling fundamentalist Taliban Christian the agnostic Jew David Berlinski is clearly begs the question (and is flat out stupid).
And what of all those evolutionary drugs being dispensed in Darwinian hospitals? Yes, get very worried everyone, if we don’t believe in evolution, persecute evolution skeptics and keep lots of government grant money flowing we are all going to die, Die, DIE!!!!
Or maybe not. I work on a campus with a very large university hospital. There are over 100 therapeutic studies going on at any time, major advances in medicine are being constantly made . . . and they are Christians here, the place is riddled with creationists. Darwinism contributes nothing. Next time you have an MRI, a cardiac catheterization, a pacemaker inserted or any number of other medical wonders, thank a creationist. Oh, and don’t hesitate to have your health taken care of at a Catholic, Adventist, Methodist, Presbyterian or other Christian hospital. You may die before you find an Atheist one.
As far as genetic algorithms are concerned, of course they work, that is what they are DESIGNED to do. Get one to work without a computer designed by computer geniuses, a very clever program written by a brilliant programmer and a preset goal decided in advance by someone and you have something like Darwinian evolution.
Now, how about asking why Darwinists, instead of simply allowing Darwinism win in an open marketplace of ideas, have to fall back on slander, red herrings and vicious attacks on the careers of promising scientists. Whether Darwinism, Intelligent Design or some other theory is correct, the behavior of promoters of Darwinism reveals what they really think about the strength of their ideology.
