{"id":2638,"date":"2011-04-05T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/the-death-of-evolution-is-halfway-here-lol\/"},"modified":"2011-04-05T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T00:10:00","slug":"the-death-of-evolution-is-halfway-here-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/the-death-of-evolution-is-halfway-here-lol.html","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Evolution is Halfway Here (LOL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019m glad that Amused Muse <a href=\"http:\/\/amused-muse.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/oh-dear-me-i-almost-forgot-evo-dead-in.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">returned to blogging<\/a> to remind us that\u00a0William Dembski <a href=\"http:\/\/amused-muse.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/evolution-dead-in-ten-years.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">predicted<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/antievolution.org\/aebb-archive\/aebbarchive__quot_evolution_theory_on_last_legs_quot_.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2006<\/a> that the demise of evolution is a decade away.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 style=\"font-family: times new roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/replay.waybackmachine.org\/20080306054753\/http:\/\/pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=10290\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evolution theory on last legs, says seminary teacher<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h5 style=\"font-family: times new roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%\">By Dylan T. Lovan<br>ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;font-size: 100%\"><b><span class=\"dateline\">LOUISVILLE<\/span><span class=\"dateline-separator\"> \u2013 <\/span><\/b>To William Dembski, all the debate in this country over evolution won\u2019t matter in a decade.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;font-size: 100%\"><br>By then, he says, the theory of evolution put forth by Charles Darwin 150 years ago will be dead.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;font-size: 100%\"><br>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\u2019t be able to supply the answers.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;font-size: 100%\"><br>\u201cI see this all disintegrating very quickly,\u201d he said.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Critics of\u00a0evolution have been predicting the demise of evolution ever since before Darwin\u2019s time. It is the fact that, unlike this prediction of evolution\u2019s critics, evolutionary theory makes predictions which are confirmed that gives mainstream scientists such confidence in it.<\/p>\n<p>Someone remind me, when is the demise of historical Jesus studies predicted for?<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/creationism\/general\/wedge-document\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wedge Document<\/a>\u201d set as a five-year goal back in 1998 \u201cOne hundred scientific, academic and technical articles by our fellows.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But to publish articles, you have to do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianforums.com\/t7524301\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">actual research<\/a>, and that is something that most proponents of Intelligent Design have proved unwilling and\/or unable to do. Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/pigeonchess.com\/2011\/04\/05\/wait-what\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some of its spokespeople continue to show evidence that they do not understand even the most basic concepts in mainstream evolutionarly biology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Young-earth creationists, on the other hand, are presumably happy to even get <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2011\/04\/the_creation_museum_makes_it_t.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogs%2Fpharyngula+%28Pharyngula%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a mention in a peer-reviewed journal<\/a>, however unfavorably.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4401694458518144910?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m glad that Amused Muse returned to blogging to remind us that\u00a0William Dembski predicted in 2006 that the demise of evolution is a decade away. 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