I’m glad that Amused Muse returned to blogging to remind us that William Dembski predicted in 2006 that the demise of evolution is a decade away.

Evolution theory on last legs, says seminary teacher

By Dylan T. Lovan
ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOUISVILLE – To William Dembski, all the debate in this country over evolution won’t matter in a decade.

By then, he says, the theory of evolution put forth by Charles Darwin 150 years ago will be dead.

The mathematician turned Darwin critic says there is much to be learned about how life evolved on this planet. And he thinks the model of evolution accepted by the scientific community won’t be able to supply the answers.

“I see this all disintegrating very quickly,” he said.”

Critics of evolution have been predicting the demise of evolution ever since before Darwin’s time. It is the fact that, unlike this prediction of evolution’s critics, evolutionary theory makes predictions which are confirmed that gives mainstream scientists such confidence in it.

Someone remind me, when is the demise of historical Jesus studies predicted for?

But to be fair to the proponents of Intelligent Design, their ability to predict the future of mainstream science is no worse than their ability to predict the future of Intelligent Design. Their infamous “Wedge Document” set as a five-year goal back in 1998 “One hundred scientific, academic and technical articles by our fellows.”

But to publish articles, you have to do actual research, and that is something that most proponents of Intelligent Design have proved unwilling and/or unable to do. Indeed, some of its spokespeople continue to show evidence that they do not understand even the most basic concepts in mainstream evolutionarly biology.

Young-earth creationists, on the other hand, are presumably happy to even get a mention in a peer-reviewed journal, however unfavorably.