Why Real Scientists Scoff At William Dembski

This is so, so true!

Why real scientists scoff at William Dembski
Daniel Dickson-LaPrade

I first heard of Philip Gingerich while looking up “Whale Evolution” on Wikipedia. Gingerich is a professor at the University of Michigan, and he directs its Museum of Paleontology.

Anti-evolutionists like William Dembski contend that there are few if any “transitional fossils” which show evolution in action.

Thanks in part to Gingerich’s work, whale evolution provides one excellent refutation of this claim.

There are, in fact, over half a dozen species of extinct whale ancestors — many with their own Wikipedia entries — showing a clear development from prehistoric land-dwelling carnivores to today’s whales and dolphins. Two of these were co-discovered by Gingerich.

Don’t take my word for it, of course. Just look up “Whale Evolution” yourself, but don’t bother looking up “Philip Gingerich.”

You see, unlike the extinct animals which he discovered, Gingerich does not have his own Wikipedia entry.

William Dembski, on the other hand, does.

Do you know why real scientists scoff at intelligent design advocates like Dembski? He and his cronies want the scientific prestige, the awards and the Wikipedia entries without doing the necessary hard work.

For example, add up all the articles supporting intelligent design that have ever been published in peer-reviewed science journals.

Even according to the most bloated and unlikely estimates of this total, Philip Gingerich alone has published more peer-reviewed journal articles within the same time period.

While Dembski was still in college, Philip Gingerich was digging fossils out of the ground in Pakistan.

While Dembski was helping Ann Coulter write a book arguing there are no transitional fossils, Gingerich was painstakingly measuring those fossils bone-by-bone.

The theory of evolution is complicated and superficially taught in public schools.

Doubts are reasonable.

Before running to slackers like William Dembski for an alternative, however, look at the evidence of evolution for yourself, either online at Web sites like Talkorigins.org or in person at our excellent natural history museum.

Given the toil that went into amassing this evidence, the least we can do is examine it impartially.

You can read the whole article here: Why Real Scientists Scoff At William Dembski

Well said that man!

Kyuuketsuki (Co-Founder: “Science, Just Science” Campaign)