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Biology - it's all either math or engineering according to ID

By jlynch on January 11, 2007.

Earlier on today, I noticed the following by Dembski:

If I ever became the president of a university (per impossibile), I would dissolve the biology department and divide the faculty with tenure that I couldn't get rid of into two new departments: those who know engineering and how it applies to biological systems would be assigned to the new "Department of Biological Engineering"; the rest, and that includes the evolutionists, would be consigned to the new "Department of Nature Appreciation" (didn't Darwin think of himself as a naturalist?).

PZ comments here. This is worth putting side by side with Berlinski's statement about the sciences:

My real view is that there is only one science, and that is mathematics, and that the physical sciences are really forms of experimental mathematics.

And they call evolutionists "reductionist"?

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There could be some merit it having a Dept. of Biological Engineering. After all an engineering approach should recognize the power of algorithms in explaining Darwinian evolution but some how I don't think that is what BillyBoy Dembski has in mind.

By CanuckRob (not verified) on 11 Jan 2007 #permalink

If Dembski ever became president of a legitimate university, it would be much better proof of God than all the rest of his drivel.

If Dembski ever became president of a legitimate university, it would be much better proof of God than all the rest of his drivel.

Hmmm. . .I think I would have a hard time believing in any God who could pontentially approve of Dembski's pathologically bad behavior.

Let's hope he ends up President of Bob Jones U then. I suspect that was what motivated the comment anyway - an attempt to get things rolling amongst his supporters.

I doubt that many of the guys at UD ever did some biological engineering especially genetic engineering. Otherwise DaveScot would have not written such BS about "the cost of mistakes".