paleonet Good news from President Bush's Science Advisor on ID

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I wonder if he will be cast out over this statement. He seems to believe the same way about ID and creationism as most of us PaleoNetters:

MARBURGER ON "INTELLIGENT DESIGN"

Chris Mooney reports in The American Prospect that John H. Marburger III,
director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy,
denounced "intelligent design" as unscientific. Mooney writes, "Speaking
at the annual conference of the National Association of Science Writers,
Marburger fielded an audience question about 'Intelligent Design' (ID), the
latest supposedly scientific alternative to Charles Darwin's theory of
descent with modification. The White House's chief scientist stated point
blank, 'Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory.' And that's not all
-- as if to ram the point home, Marburger soon continued, 'I don't regard
Intelligent Design as a scientific topic.'" In March 2004, during an
on-line colloquy sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Marburger
similarly got it right: when asked about the Bush administration's
scientific credibility in light of the president's reported skepticism
about evolution, he began by saying, "Evolution is a cornerstone of modern
biology."

To read Mooney's article "Intelligent denial" in The American Prospect, visit:
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9216

To read the transcript of the March 2004 on-line colloquy, visit:
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2004/03/science/