Thursday, February 23, 2006
What Controversy?
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That, of course, presupposes that there is a controversy to teach. Hence the Discovery Institute’s lame attempt to assemble a list of "scientists" who express "Scientific Dissent From Darwinism." "Project Steve," though a tongue-in-cheek effort, showed how hollow the DI’s list was. Now there has been a more formal survey done to see what sort of scientific controversy there might really be.
After considering how best to test what controversy might exist, Robert Camp decided:
‘Nuff said.
The mantra of the Intelligent Design Movement has been "teach the controversy," at least since it became clear that it wasn’t going to be "teach ID science."
That, of course, presupposes that there is a controversy to teach. Hence the Discovery Institute’s lame attempt to assemble a list of "scientists" who express "Scientific Dissent From Darwinism." "Project Steve," though a tongue-in-cheek effort, showed how hollow the DI’s list was. Now there has been a more formal survey done to see what sort of scientific controversy there might really be.
After considering how best to test what controversy might exist, Robert Camp decided:
. . . the way to determine the truth of "teach the scientific controversy" seemed obvious. If there are authoritative voices on the purported existence of a controversy among biologists regarding mechanisms of evolution, they belong to those individuals who are well aware of the most current scholarship in their field and are in touch with daily discussion of that scholarship. This effectively describes the heads of prominent research university biology departments.
He compiled a list of 158 schools meeting his criteria and emailed the following:
Survey of Biological Sciences department heads regarding "Teach the controversy."
Q: Regarding the issue of "Intelligent Design theory" vs. current biological consensus on the mechanisms of evolution - is there a difference of professional opinion within your department that you feel could be accurately described as a scientific controversy?
1. No
2. Yes
Of the 158 initial queries, Mr. Camp received 73 responses, 71 of which (97.3%) were unqualifiedly negative as to the existence of any controversy. One response said there was no controversy but qualified that response and one (which came from a theological medical university) said there was a controversy.
‘Nuff said.
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