The Design Counterrevolution

Dembski's The Design Revolution

The introduction by the noted miscreant of the Nixonian gang, Charles Colson, gives the game away with a remark on Kant and the 'fact versus faith' dichotomy. I wasn't aware of such a dichotomy (maybe he means the phenomenon/noumenon duality), and it would seem the ID proponents are worried about the Kantian challenge to the argument by design. Most who follow this wing of the Darwin debate are being treated to a deceptive pseudo-version of the 'argument by design'. But since the famous Kantian and other refutations of these proofs puts that out of the competition but are unknown to the crowd being 'reconditioned' if not brainwashed, it is touch and go, and the tactics of the now crystallized ID propaganda machine must proceed with caution lest anyone figure out the strategy (although I am sure Dembski is sincere, but wonder if he grasps how he is being used). I am not proponent of Darwinism or the Darwin propaganda machine, and can only look on disgruntled at the way the classic critiques of Darwin's theory of natural selection have been coopted by the religious right. Dembski's clever arguments matched with the likes of the Charles Colson's are not a trustworthy form of discourse and we now see the real cultural strategy of the right wing in action. This book is divided into piece pointman blurbs defending the new dogmas in a style that seems to court the boilerplate needs of the faithful.