Saturday, May 07, 2005
John West, Discovery Institute Get it Wrong... Again
On the Discovery Institute's Evolution News and Views, John West posts this apologia for the reading challenged in the intelligent design camp:
Well John, as one who has attended the hearings and watched Science Coalition attorney Pedro Irigonegaray drag the grudging admission from the lips of witness after witness in a series of grueling cross-examinations, Red State Rabble can personally attest to the truth of the Knight-Ridder story.
By the way, it's not just Knight-Ridder, it's Associated Press, in fact, it's every news organization -- and there were many, as a Google search will quickly reveal -- who had a reporter at the dramatic second day of the hearings.
Perhaps more revealing of West and the Discovery Institute's absolute contempt for truth, is the falsity of the second assertion made in the Evolution News and Views post, namely that "anyone who has read the minority report has read the majority draft of the science standards relating to evolution!"
It's simply not true, no matter how many exclamation points West puts after it.
RSR note: The original version of this post contained an error. See the comments below for the original text. RSR is grateful to reader Kevin Parker for calling our attention to it.
"Knight-Ridder Newspapers is circulating a false news report after apparently being bamboozled by the Darwinist spin-machine in Kansas. The article claims that the expert witnesses in the Kansas evolution hearings have not read the science standards they are seeking to change. But the charge is false, and the fact that a major news organization would promote such a bogus story makes one wonder about how many reporters have actually read the science standards in question...
"What this story fails to disclose is that the minority report of the science standards committee reprints verbatim the relevant science standards relating to evolution from the majority draft. In other words, anyone who has read the minority report has read the majority draft of the science standards relating to evolution!"
Well John, as one who has attended the hearings and watched Science Coalition attorney Pedro Irigonegaray drag the grudging admission from the lips of witness after witness in a series of grueling cross-examinations, Red State Rabble can personally attest to the truth of the Knight-Ridder story.
By the way, it's not just Knight-Ridder, it's Associated Press, in fact, it's every news organization -- and there were many, as a Google search will quickly reveal -- who had a reporter at the dramatic second day of the hearings.
Perhaps more revealing of West and the Discovery Institute's absolute contempt for truth, is the falsity of the second assertion made in the Evolution News and Views post, namely that "anyone who has read the minority report has read the majority draft of the science standards relating to evolution!"
It's simply not true, no matter how many exclamation points West puts after it.
RSR note: The original version of this post contained an error. See the comments below for the original text. RSR is grateful to reader Kevin Parker for calling our attention to it.
