A new ID journal.
Looks like the DI-funded Biologic Institute (see here and here) has come up with its own “ID-friendly” journal, BIO-Complexity with the usual suspects on the editorial team. The DI chimes in that the “editorial board is composed of an international group of scientists with differing views about the merits of ID. But all are committed to a fair and honest assessment of the question.” I’m willing to guess that most (all?) Twenty-two of the 29 have signed the Dissent from Darwin list. Of course, this isn’t the first time that Dembski and buddies attempted to start their own journal – and that first attempt didn’t exactly end in glory.
The good news is that maybe the promised Nelson & Dembski paper could be submitted to the new venue as it is surely the “best peer-reviewed biology journal we can find” ?
Update: I’ve just remembered that there is another ID-friendly, peer-reviewed journal out there, one that is a “professional, peer-reviewed technical journal for the publication of interdisciplinary scientific and other relevant research”.
The “Editor in Chief” is Matti Leisola, who was a presenter at the 8th European Creationist Congress and gave a speech entitled “30 years as a non-evolutionist.” Those conferences have been organized by Creation Conferences, that gives its mission as “Promoting Biblical Creation and its relevance today through regional and national conferences.” In addition, Leisola was identified by Creation Ministries International, a young-Earth creationist organization, as one of the “biblical creationists” who appeared in its opus, Son of Expelled … er … The Voyage That Shook The World.
As I pointed out on AtBC, Leisola doesn’t work at the Helsinki University of Technology – he can’t because it doesn’t exist any more. Impressive professionalism, there.
One should also feel some sympathy for Anne Gauger – she only become copy editor whilst the big boys are all editors.
22 of the 29 have signed the Dissent from Darwin list
As I suspected. I’d have checked myself had I not been grading. Now how many are YECs?
Oh I’m not going to try and figure that out!
Wonder why they didn’t resuscitate Progress in Information, Complexity, and Design.
They don’t have the power to resurrect the dead. That corpse is well beyond resuscitation.
In my day, grad students weren’t slackers
They are all boys – wow.
And they even proselytize on their university web pages: http://people.rit.edu/wfbsma/faith.html
Shouldn’t Sternberg list baraminology instead of cladistics as his area of expertise?
Wait, what? Loren Haarsma is on the editorial board? I thought he was one of the good guys. John, RBH, any insight on this?
Haarsma regards some issues raised by ID as scientifically interesting:
In fairness, Ann Gauger gets to be copyeditor.
As of next week, I’m no longer a grad student! Plus, I’ve got some Tyndall letters to transcribe…
As of next week, I’m no longer a grad student!
Does that mean a soon to be Dr.Bulldog?
Oh, no, not a Dr. I will have my MA in history, next degree will be an MA in science education with an emphasis on museums… hence the internship at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry this summer..
So it’s just a Master Bulldawg!
Are you referring to JOEI (Journal of Evolutionary Informatics) which never published an issue?
Don’t forget Origins and Design which has been on hiatus for close to a decade.
Master, maybe. Expert, no.
“As I pointed out on AtBC, Leisola doesn’t work at the Helsinki University of Technology – he can’t because it doesn’t exist any more. Impressive professionalism, there.”
That’s right. Helsinki University of Technology was renamed as “Aalto University School of Science and Technology” in the beginning of this year.
http://www.tkk.fi/en/
Well, at least one person has faith that they’ll come up with something.
Too bad his commentators sure as hell don’t buy it…
I see our old buddy Steve Fuller has a commentary at the Guardian…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/03/science-religion-intelligent-design
He includes the obligatory “Buy my book”.
And did you Bob? Did you buy the book?
I haven’t even bought The Spatula Brain.