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Article Date: Sep 07, 2007
Baylor U. Shuts Down Prof's ID Website
Officials
at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, ordered the shutdown of one of the
school's distinguished professors' personal websites because the site,
hosted on the university's server, supported Intelligent Design. Robert
Marks, distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering
at Baylor, launched a website called the Evolutionary Informatics Lab
in June that offered scientific support for Intelligent Design.
William
Dembski, a research professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, told BP, "Robert Marks is a world-class expert in
the field of evolutionary computing, and yet the Baylor administration,
without any consideration of the actual content of Marks' work at the
Evolutionary Informatics Lab, decided to shut it down simply because
there were anonymous complaints linking the lab to Intelligent Design."
Lori Fogleman,
director of media communications at Baylor, told BP, "This isn't about
the content of the website. Really the issue is related to Baylor's
policies and procedures of approving centers, institutes, products
using the university's name."
Robert Crowther of the
Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture said ID has become
such a controversial issue because it challenges traditional science.
"We know things now and there are new discoveries being made all the
time that are leading a number of scientists to not just question
Darwinian evolution but to actively pursue research into Intelligent
Design. ... We wouldn't be having the debate if there wasn't something
going on in science that was causing a lot of questions to rise from
most of the scientists."
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