Ethics

Defending Dembski's Curriculum

By Ed Brayton

It's been quite some time since I'd even bothered to look at Dembski's Home for Wayward Sycophants, aka Uncommon Descent, but someone emailed me a link to this post by someone named Clive Hayden (who?) in which he attempts, quite lamely, to defend Dembski's amusingly substance-free course requirements in the classes he teaches at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He begins by missing the point:

His complaint is with the efficacy of Dr. Dembski's educational approach of assigning his students, as part of the course requirement, the task of writing at least 10 posts defending ID on "hostile" websites.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 14, 2009 (boomark / email).