Found at Dembski’s House of Evolution Denialism:
Uncommon Descent has been debunking anthropogenic global warming since the website began 3.5 years ago. We have a keen nose for bogus science here, folks.
Good thing there’s now a Micro Center in town, ‘cos I need a new keyboard.
DaveScot has an article over at Casa Dembski about Epulopiscium fishelsoni. Judging by the article that he links to (from the Journal of Bacteriology, 1998), this bacterium looks like a pretty interesting beastie: it changes size by up to 20 times. That’s individual cells, not variation in a population: a single E. fishelsoni can grow to become 10-20 times larger than it was some hours ago. Not only that, but at its largest, it’s over half a millimeter long, making it visible to the naked eye.
But what interests DaveScot is the size of its genome: about 1 trillion base pairs, more than 300 times as much as in humans, which he evidently takes to be evidence for intelligent design. Unfortunately, to do so he must ignore the conclusions of the very paper he cites.
Over at chez Dembski, the craniorectally inverted DaveScott
writes
As I’ve said many times before, there is only one prop still holding up the NDE [Neo-Darwinian Evolution] narrative and that is the establishment clause of the 1st amendment.
So… isn’t this pretty much an admission that ID is religion?
To give him his due, though, he also wrote:
What Wesley and his motley crew just don’t get is that the science argument in ID vs. NDE is over.
This is entirely correct. Just not the way he hopes.