Comments on: More Wallace … this time with added Dembski.

By: George Beccaloni

George Beccaloni — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:34:21 +0000

Ah, I finally found the update and see that you have indeed done so.

By: John Lynch

John Lynch — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:21:57 +0000

George,
That’s more or less what I posted in the update.

By: George Beccaloni

George Beccaloni — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:12:50 +0000

“Oh dear!” I thought when I saw your post, a whole bunch of IDiots have banded together and are now trying to use Wallace’s writings from when he was in his dotage to bolster their irrational belief system! Well, although I think I was sadly partly correct, the book turns out not to be the edited tome of essays by ID proponents I had expected. Instead I discovered that it is simply a reprint of Wallace’s 1910 book The World of Life with some introductory text (see here and scroll down: http://www.erasmuspress.net/Publications.html). If Flannery and Dembski are trying to present Wallace’s peculiar spiritualist beliefs as Intelligent Design then that just goes to show how much such people are willing to distort the facts in order to further their cause (see http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/FAQ.htm#idesign). Note that you don’t have to even part with your hard earned cash to read Wallace’s book, as it is freely available as a pdf – e.g. from here http://wallacefund.info/en/world-life-manifestation-creative-power-directive-mind-and-ultimate-purpose

By: gb

gb — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:07:13 +0000

Or is that ‘MonodesignistIC Theory’?

By: John Lynch

John Lynch — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:51:25 +0000

See an update here.

By: pough

pough — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:36:01 +0000

Wow, all the way “from Judeo-Christian to Moslem”? That’s the widest spectrum, ever. That spectrum’s so incredibly wide that, quite frankly, I’m skeptical. How could there possibly be a spectrum so wide? That spectrum must have been designed by an intelligent designer. Considering the nature of the spectrum, there’s probably only one designer. The “Monodesignist Theory”, if you will.

By: J-Dog

J-Dog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:34:50 +0000

DLC – You are correct! The words clear & concise will NEVER be linked to a Dembski screed.

By: DLC

DLC — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:46:37 +0000

“Now with added Dembski” sounds like a reverse on the usual advertising ploy. Reverse in that, based on what I’ve seen of his work before, extra Dembski would tend to drive me away from a book.