Dan Ely sounds a lot like Phil Skell. They both go to the evolutionary biologists at their respective universities and ask them ill-informed questions. They then misinterpret the answers and spread their misnomers throughout the anti-evolution community.
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Phillip Skell has a long and sleazy history of lying to support creationism.
Philip Skell - whom I've dealt with before - is once again shilling for the Discovery Institute.
Rob Crowther complains about a story in the New York Times:
First, Dean mistakenly refers to intelligent design as the “ideological cousin of creationism.” It is not.
Take a look at this interesting discussion of a recent PLoS article in which publications in medical journals are reluctant to use the word "evolution":