Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer

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This YouTube video runs to about an hour and a quarter, so I will be answering him once again in a series, minute by minute. Source
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Luskin, Shapiro: Has Intelligent Design Waned?

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Shapiro suggests that ID often amounts to a presenter highlighting an amazing feature in biology and then giving glory to God. Source
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Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

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The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. Source
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Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”? 

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What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Source
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Journalist Finds a “Cover-Up” by the Bronx Zoo

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It wasn’t until they were forced by events that the Zoo and the Wildlife Conservation Society admitted this black life mattered. Source
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Something Is Missing from Bronx Zoo’s Apology

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The truth is that placing a man in the Monkey House was intended as an education for the public in Darwinian evolution. Source
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Bari Weiss Knows What ID Scientists Already Knew

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Advocates of intelligent design have experienced the lengths to which upholders of the “predetermined narrative” will go to punish dissent. Source
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Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief

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What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top? Source
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