Lame
"'If we've defined science such that it cannot get to the true answer, we've got a pretty lame definition of science,' said Douglas D. Axe, a molecular biologist and the director of research at the Biologic Institute, a new research center in Seattle that looks at the organization of biological systems, including intelligent design issues. Dr. Axe said he had received 'significant' financing from the Discovery Institute, but he declined to give any other details about the institute or its financing." [LINK]No, Dr. Axe, what's lame is the presence in my city of your "Institute," its crypto-parent organization The Discovery Institute and Designer-knows-how-many other affiliated front organizations with fancy misleading names. "The Discovery Institute" . . . "The Center for Science and Culture" . . . "The Biologic Institute" . . . it's a wonder there is enough laboratory space in Seattle for all these Russian dolls.
Actually, predictions of a lab-space bubble may be premature. I'm confident these are "scientists" more at home among fax machines and e-mail programs than autoclaves and DNA sequencers. It's embarrassing that Seattle is their base, but what better storefront for their deliberately mislabeled goods than one of the two most "unchurched" states? Fewer reasonable people would be buying if these obfuscators came from Little Rock or Fort Worth.
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