The I in ID

Topic: Open viewing, invited postingNew Update: If you would like to be considered as a participant of Brainstorms, please send an email to moderator@iscid.org and in the message either provide evidence of previous posts that you've made that you'd like us to use in our consideration or send a new post for evaluation.Moving forward, Brainstorms is implementing a new discussion board policy. This policy is an attempt to improve the quality of our forum's postings while at the same time slowing down the pace. Good conversations don't happen when people post in a frenzy, driven only by an eagerness to shoot down ideas, accuse, and slogan-sling.There is a danger in taking this policy: it could be that it doesn't fit internet dynamics. We will have to wait and see. One thing is for sure: we were not happy with the quality of discussions that were taking place, and saw no reason to waste our bandwidth hosting the sort of thing that is pervasive across the net. If you want to advocate for or against Darwinism, go somewhere else. If you want to advocate for or against ID, go somewhere else. Indeed, if you see this conversation as "ID vs. Darwinism" then you might as well go somewhere else as well.Brainstorms was never set up to be a standard, anything goes, discussion forum. We have a goal: to foster substantive, scientific discussions. Some people think that having this goal amounts to censorship. We're sorry if you see it that way. We don't. We see it as implementing heuristics to produce above status-quo conversations.Active participation at Brainstorms is now limited to:(1) An invited group of participants who we feel have generally been productive community members and who have generally remained congenial unless provoked (and sometimes despite being provoked)
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Topic: Purchase "Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA"ISCID Executive Director William Dembski is the editor of a recently released collection of essays on the nature and role of teleology in science. Purchase a copy through the link below and support ISCID.Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA
William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse (Editors)Amazon.comBook Description
William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide here a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins--a controversial dialectic since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. Invariably, the source of controversy has been "design." Is the appearance of design in organisms (as exhibited in their functional complexity) the result of purely natural forces acting without prevision or teleology? Or, does the appearance of design signify genuine prevision and teleology, and, if so .... yada yada ...

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