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Peer Reviewed Intelligent Design?

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Critics of intelligent design often claim that design advocates don’t publish their work in appropriate scientific literature.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I've read at least two of those papers. Neither one had a thing to say about ID. They were both critical of one small step in the process and said that it needed another intermediate step.

    That is fair enough, but that in no way argues that something intelligent made it.

  • 1 decade ago

    Publishing in a peer-reviewed journal is the first step, it then has to be reviewed, not shot down, and accepted.

    We know that the Scientific Method has developed over time and is continually being refined so the statement "including Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus, Newton’s Principia, and Darwin’s Origin of Species (the latter of which was published in a prominent British trade press and was not peer-reviewed in the modern sense of the term)." is true intellectually dishonest, as it suggests that we didn't have standards in the past, so we should not maintain current working standards.

  • This site is beyond misleading. Peer-reviewed does not mean what they are trying to make it mean. They list books that are merely read by publishers to determine their value as proposing an interesting idea. What people mean by "peer-reviewed" is that the experimentation conducted has been reviewed for validity and accuracy by other experts in the field. Most of the things on the list are just opinion pieces that happened to get published by university presses looking to cash in on the creationists who would buy them. The articles are not articles ABOUT ID, but might mention it or provide a brief alternate solution including ID. Intelligent design cannot be tested, thus is cannot be peer-reviewed.

    You are misunderstanding the meaning of "peer-reviewed" and this website is blatant intellectual fraud.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The fact is, they don't. There are journals which are reputable and demand reproducible science, and there are journals which exist only to advance political causes or paid causes. It's easy to distinguish the difference, and "intelligent design" just won't be found in "Nature" or the "American Journal of Physics" or similar publications; it simply lacks the scientific rigor.

    As for the arguments that giants such as Newton and Darwin didn't publish in scientific journals, this is true, because the peer-review system we have today didn't exist in their time. It's like saying that Pythagoreas never got his Ph.D. in math; while this is true, this doesn't mean that modern mathematicians shouldn't have credentials; it only shows that the university system didn't exist in Ancient Greece.

  • 5 years ago

    Not but one article could be said to be peer reviewed. About par for the ID course. Did you think to fool scientists? ID proponents having their work published in reputable journals would have their evidence brought to the same examination as everyone else; that is why they can not publish in reputable journals.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Intelligent design promoters often claim that critics of intelligent design often claim that design advocates don’t publish their work in appropriate scientific literature.

    ...see how easy it is to make unsubstantiated claims?

    The key is not 'did you publish', but 'where did you publish, and did the publication withstand peer review'.

  • 1 decade ago

    They don't. The "peer reviewed" examples given here are reviewed by other intelligent design advocates. Many of the examples are books that are published entirely outside the peer-review process. This is not "appropriate scientific literature."

    I'm not sure how you intended to prove your point without providing any supporting examples.

  • 1 decade ago

    Getting an article published in a peer-reviewed journal is about 1000 miles away from the peer-reviewed journal *supporting* its contents.

    More deception from the discovery institute.

  • 1 decade ago

    They don't. You showed a listing of books and DVD's published by ID'ers. Anybody can publish a book. Even idiots.

    I think the sound of nails being constantly driven into the coffin of creationism is making you deaf.

  • 1 decade ago

    ID came out of the scientific community.

    Creationist had nothing to do with it.

    However, creationist do like it. It is definitely a step in the right direction-and many former evolutionist are aware of it.

    Discovery Institute has done well with this.

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