<![CDATA[Discovery Institute Distorts Again]]>Apparently they have no sense of shame at the so-called Discovery Institute (which has yet to discover a single thing). They took a news article about how a software simulation doesn’t fully explain how evolution took place – an article which seems to conflate evolution with the origins of life, typically bad science reporting – and tried to twist it into some kind of admission that evolution doesn’t reflect reality.

I’m sure the scientists involved would be apalled, since they themselves dismiss the so-called Discovery Institute’s major thesis:

His conclusion? Although natural selection is necessary for life, something is missing in our understanding of how evolution produced complex creatures. By this, he doesn’t mean intelligent design – the claim that only God can light the blue touch paper of life – but some other concept. “I don’t know what it is, nor do I think anyone else does, contrary to the claims you hear asserted,” he says. But he believes ALife will be crucial in discovering the missing mechanism.

Get that? There’s no doubt that evolution took place, just that (not surprisingly) our understanding of how it works isn’t complete. And it specifically is not “God” – which the IDiots dismiss as a straw man in a childish fit of “am not!”. Anybody who doubts that ID is a religious claim is either uninformed or dishonest.

And the fine folks at the so-called Discovery Institute are obviously dishonest. Shame on them.

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