Posted: Jan 22, 2011 8:18 pm
Rumraket wrote:Scar wrote:This is especially hilarious given the fact that Dumbski himself has long since given up on pretending he wasn't arguing for religion.
Haha, yes I forgot : http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/10/are_we_at_all_surprised.php
"In writing The End of Christianity today, I would also underscore three points: (1) As a biblical inerrantist, I accept the full verbal inspiration of the Bible and the conventional authorship of the books of the Bible. Thus, in particular, I accept Mosaic authorship of Genesis (and of the Pentateuch) and reject the Documentary Hypothesis. (2) Even though I introduce in the book a distinction between kairos (God's time) and chronos (the world's time), the two are not mutually exclusive. In particular, I accept that the events described in Genesis 1- 11 happened in ordinary space-time, and thus that these chapters are as historical as the rest of the Pentateuch. (3) I believe that Adam and Eve were real people, that as the initial pair of humans they were the progenitors of the whole human race, that they were specially created by God, and thus that they were not the result of an evolutionary process from primate or hominid ancestors. " - William A. Dembski
I think he had to admit it, out of venial cowardice. He might have lost his cushy job if he had fooled anyone that he didn't really believe in god and all that special creation nonsense, that the "designer" he argued for was not identical in all respects to their silly little Jehovah.
He works for a tough crowd. In other times, they would have sent him the Inquisition for misleading the faithful. He's lucky they can't torture anymore, so he got away with just clarifying his religious argument and keeping his job.
Of course, we atheists weren't fooled all along. But it looks like a certain friend of ours, one in particular whose name begins with T and ends with R, was really taken for a ride by Dumbski. Wonder how it feels to find out your number one hero is a lying deceiver who has admitted using "designer" as a smokescreen for "god of the inerrant bible".