There's a Darwin v. Design Conference scheduled to take place on the Southern Methodist University campus this weekend, an event where empirical data from biology, biochemistry, physics, mathematics and related fields will be presented and their relevance debated. Pretty typical kind of thing for a university setting, right?Wrong.
For proponents of intelligent design rarely get the chance to let their positions be heard in the modern university. No, though a free exchange of ideas is proudly promised, certain schools of thought are routinely smothered no matter the relevance, the stability of evidence, and consistency of logic those heterodox opinions represent.
Even in this case, the forces of paranoia and obscurantism are threatening to disrupt or even cancel the debate altogether. And the thugs involved include certain professors and even some journalists who are trying every deceitful trick they can to stop the event.
Here's more on the controversy and the eerie, irrational fear being displayed by the Darwinists.
