Dear ASAers -
In my post on Sept 8, repeated below, I said I wud ask my two Bioprof
friends the question about where the impetus comes from, for authors to
include anti-ID statements in their professional papers.
We had our lunch with them yesterday, and their answer was "What papers?".
They said that in the journals they read (Genetics journals) they did not
see any such statements.
So I stand corrected. I'll think of something else to yell about on the
List.
Lawrence Johnston
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>Larry Johnston writes:
>Hi, Ian and Phil. Thank you for wrestling with this unsettling estimate.
>And Ian, thanks for straightening out the source of the ID comment.
>My take on that comment is that Koonin is making a perfunctory statement
>against ID, at the end of his paper. You have probably noticed that this
>sort of statement appears in a large number of papers by Biologists and
>some other scientists and science journalists, and seems to be an
>important cultural requirement.
>My wife and I have lunch with two Biology professors each week when they
>are in town, and I plan to ask them next Wednesday, if they understand
>where such an impetus comes from. Blessings, and Stay tuned!
>Lawrence Johnston, ASA member
"Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not"
A. Einstein
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