Motorhead, be careful with blanket refutations like that. There
are recent "scientific" developments in ID. There are people out there who use the scientific method to obtain results in support of their idea. The problem I often run into is that their results do not exclude alternative interpretations (which is a requirement for forming a theory). However, some of them come up with stuff that I have trouble refuting with my primitive knowledge.
One such example comes to us from John Baumgardner, PhD, from the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). It's called RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth), and consists of several papers dealing with geological dating techniques. It concluded in 2005. That's about the most recent real research I've seen. It's supposed to be definitive proof that radiometric dating doesn't work. I don't know enough about geology or spectrometry to actually refute it. Maybe y'all could take a look at it and tell me what you think.
RATE | The Institute for Creation Research
My understanding is that John Baumgardner (PhD) for the ICR had reputable spectrometry centers date several samples of rocks from the Grand Canyon, and that the dates produced varied wildly, even between samples that were supposed to be from the same geologic stratum.
A man named Kirk Bertsche, claiming to be an AMS physicist, made a sharp rebuttal, claiming that the variation in dates were due unavoidable contamination sources, but Dr Baumgardner turned it around and said that Kirk Bertsche was clearly a novice. It then becomes a scenario of credibility--"who do you believe: me or him?"--and isn't actually about the subject at hand. What I find intriguing about this tactic is that Dr Baumgardner has made it explicitly clear that his purpose in life is to tear down the theory of evolution. Does he expect us to just overlook this bias in determining credibility?
I haven't heard much about this project since then, so I don't know if it's already been refuted. And, I don't know if it fits your (Silent H's) criterion of "recent." And, I'm not an ID proponent, so I'm pretty sure I don't fit your criterion for posters, either. Still, I'd like some feedback from other people.
Edited by bluejay, : No reason given.