Monday, April 03, 2006
Separated at Birth . . .
William Dembski, that tireless champion of academic freedom, is now turning in scientists to Homeland Security. Alarmed by the sudden realization that thinking may lead to actions, Dembski has come up with a real-life performance worthy of the movies.
Dembski is apparently afraid that University of Texas professor Eric Pianka is encouraging scientists to build a pandemic agent and purposely unleash it on the world. You can go to Wesley Elsberry’s blog, The Austringer, to learn the details of this dastardly plot in the halls of academia.
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You can also go to Pianka's course description to get his side of it sans filters polarized hard right. Amusingly, Pianka's metaphor for his ideas is (what else?) a certain mounted group:
If humans do not control their own population (and we seem unwilling and unable to do so), then other forces will certainly act to control our population. The four horseman of the apocalypse (conquest, war, famine, and death) are all candidates..
