Biologist Ken Miller gives a very interesting talk at Case Western: The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?
It’s a good, long dose of common sense. Some of the science gets a little technical, but he’s a very good presenter (and funny) and anybody should be able to follow along and get the idea. He’s very personable and very clear. The whole video is about two hours long. The talk itself is one hour – I highly recommend it.
As he spoke I was reminded of John Derbyshire’s speculation that the West will eventually embrace evolution as it eventually embraced the round earth theory, and that creationism will find its home in Islam. In the Q&A Miller warns that what happened to Islam – once the seat of science and mathematics – could happen to us.
No matter how lame the questions were (and there are some windbags at that university) his answers were always illuminating and civil. I particularly enjoyed his response to the old Commie with BDS which comes at about 1:30 into the video.
Intelligent Design was, as Miller admits, a brilliant marketing term. Since the Dover decision it’s really dead. This talk makes it clear that ID is a fraud. But just as they (literally) did a global search and replace to rename Creationism as Intelligent Design, they are already coming up with a new avatar. Critical Analysis of Evolution is the next step. I mean, what scientist could be against “critical analysis”? In a few years, after Critical Analysis is exposed, I suppose their name will evolve again. May I suggest they go straight to “Mom and Apple Pie”?
If you haven’t yet seen the Dover decision, Judge Jones’ decision is very worth reading.