Michael Medved Joins Discovery Institute as Senior Fellow (Discovery Blog)

Michael Medved Joins Discovery Institute as Senior Fellow (Discovery Blog): "Chapman saluted Medved “as the national radio host—make that ‘media host’—who is best able to understand science issues, including the current conflict over Darwinism and intelligent design. He’s very smart, quick and resourceful. Yet he also is respectful of those he disagrees with.” “Over the years, I’ve greatly appreciated Discovery’s scholarship and advocacy in many areas,” Medved commented. “We may not agree on every issue, but I often have been struck by how much our worldviews overlap. It has been my pleasure to have Discovery fellows on my show as guests, including Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Wells, and David Klinghoffer. Formalizing the relationship will, I’m sure, only deepen the feeling of collegiality I already have with my friends at Discovery. I look forward to working with Discovery on future projects.”"

The saddest thing about Medved is that he is bright and is authentic in his Judaism. He is too bright for me not to believe nthat he consociuosly is playing a role, endowsing thinga that are in ocnflict with Judaism's obligations to support truth and his own intellectual ability to be rational.

For one example, the DI is supposedly devoted to science of creation. If you go to their site, you will find pages of references to "peer reviewed" material supporting intelligently design. Being open minded , I looked through this list and low and behod there were a few that were actually pubished in peer reviewed jounrals ... as opposed to one sort or another of vanity press, conferenc eproceedings, or non-peer reviewed book (unless one consoders's the publisher's decsions as to what makes $$, a form of peer review).

So, here is a culled list of "real papers." For those without the biology skills, I can some them up ... some parts of biology area actually not yet fully understood, therefore there must be intelligent deign! Now THAT is impressive logic, worthy of Meved?.

CSC - Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design (Annotated): "D. A. Axe, “Estimating the Prevalence of Protein Sequences Adopting Functional Enzyme Folds,” Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 341 (2004): 1295–1315."
W.-E. Lönnig & H. Saedler, “Chromosome Rearrangements and Transposable Elements,” Annual Review of Genetics, 36 (2002): 389-410.
M.J. Denton, J.C. Marshall & M. Legge, (2002) “The Protein Folds as Platonic Forms: New Support for the pre-Darwinian Conception of Evolution by Natural Law,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 219 (2002): 325-342.
D. A. Axe, “Extreme Functional Sensitivity to Conservative Amino Acid Changes on Enzyme Exteriors,” Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 301 (2000): 585-595.

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