Comments on: Ben Stein’s Skeptics’ Circle

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:57:53 +0000

Watcher:

These are the same people who say that the Bible is God’s word, because it says it is! Logic is not their strong suit.

By: The Watcher

The Watcher — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:14:55 +0000

I’ve been saying this for a long time. It makes me pound my head in frustration to hear this argument, and I love the blurb by Skeptico above.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:27:49 +0000

The term came out of the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial. An early draft of Of Pandas and People used the term "creationist". They decided to hide ID's creationist roots, so they changed all instances of "creationist" to "design proponent". In one place, they didn't select the entire word, so they ended up with "cdesign proponentist". SkepticWiki has more.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:11:59 +0000

Okay, I’ll bite. What’s the deal with “cdesign?”

I’m assuming it’s some sort of short-hand for creationist/IDer, but I’ve never seen that before. Where did that orginate from?