Editorial writer Rod Dreher of The Dallas Morning News reacted to the news that scientists at Southern Methodist University are protesting a conference on intelligent design in biology, scheduled to be held at the university April 13-14, with an opinion piece that calls for a defense of free speech, and compares the adherence of intelligent design to the adherence of Marxism at SMU
In other words, Dreher defends intelligent design as having finally achieved a high degree of cromulence:
One might be foolish to disagree. Intelligent design is cromulent. The conference will embiggen the intellectual life of the university, regardless the shadow it casts across the light of reason.
More:
- The weblog of Jeffrey Weiss, the reporter for the Dallas Morning News, and further notes on the story
- Panda’s Thumb entry on the SMU flap
- Discovery Institute’s press release on exactly the same presentation made at the Knoxville, Tennessee, Convention Center
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