William Dembski shows his lack of intelligence

Richard Dawkins had his 66th Birthday earlier this week (March 26, a belated Happy Bday). The people running his site invited readers to wish him a happy birthday and thousands did.

William Dembski, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture sent a mean spirited message to Dawkins and then posted this rant on Uncommon Descent:

“For whatever reason, the people at richarddawkins.net put me on their mailing list and sent me an invitation some time back to write a birthday greeting for Richard Dawkins, who celebrates his 66th birthday today. Go to richarddawkins.net/happybirthdayRD, and you’ll find birthday greetings from Dan Dennett, Sam Harris, P.Z. Myers, Michael Shermer, etc. But my birthday greeting is nowhere to be found.”

Dembski is asserting that his birthday message wasn’t posted but of course it was posted, see if you can find it in the full list of messages. I’d heard that they never allow critical posts over at the Uncommon Descent blog but since I didn’t have first hand evidence of it I decided to post a comment to the blog. I submitted the following comment on the 27th:

Wow, you can’t find your name in the list sorted by name! That says a lot about you.

Well now I have first hand evidence, they wouldn’t post my comment. This is exactly the opposite of all the other blogs I regularly read, they all tend to let visitors get way past criticism and to the obvious troll stage before they ban a comment. I had hoped he might at least post an apology for accusing others of censorship without checking his facts but alas it seems he has no honor. Frankly how can anyone believe a word out of the mouth of someone so lacking in intelligence they can’t find their own name on an alphabetic list and so lacking in honor they won’t admit a mistake.

The more I read the writings of the other ID proponents it is becoming clear that all of them are being intellectually dishonest. They are simply looking for a way to force either religious teaching or intellectual laziness into the science curriculum of U.S. public schools. Fortunately for The U.S.A., science teachers and scientists aren’t standing for this and the courts have so far seen through their scam.

The latest high profile ID proponent is Dr. Michael Egnor who like the others simply ignores or criticizes a century of building evidence and, offers no evidence to support his claims that some supernatural force is the real cause for evolution.

Dr. Steven Novella wrote a good post on Michael Egnor at the NeuroLogica Blog a couple weeks ago, check it out. Last week, Coturnix at A Blog Around The Clock put together a good list of links to blog posts that cover Egnor and provide more answers to the questions Egnor raises. I’ve reproduced the list here for your convenience.

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