Where did she say that?
To start, thereās this that was easy to find:
I do a google news search, fairly regularly, for āintelligent designā (by day or week) and outside of a letter to the editor or a religious blog entry, the term only appears in items from the Discovery Institute. Well thatās not really true. About half of the search results are from Engineering/Architecture sources that have nothing to do with the theory.
Itās been this way for years.
I think back in 2004 many americans were probably high on all the fighting terrorism propaganda about the war in afghanistan(the US was sooo successful in afghanistan, they moved on to Iraq*), and they really believed the Taliban was either completely defeated, or just on the cusp of that. I will not forget the irony.
- /End sarcasm.
My analysis is that pre-9/11 the Taliban came to power because many Afghans saw them as a lesser evil than the various warlords and because they cloaked themselves in the Koran. By the time NATO invaded they were no longer seen as a lesser evil, and with NATO aid to tilt the balance a combination of defections and military defeats saw them driven from most of the country, in the ācollapseā Dembski referenced. However there has since been a resurgence - while they may have minority support, their support is more committed than the governments.
I think it is a pity that Mahsoud was assassinated. I think he would have had a shot at uniting the country.
If my memory serves correctly, hasnāt Meyer taken up the torch of āevolution is a dying hypothesisā now?
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Itās the refrain of the whole lot of them. They say āDarwinismā , but although they say that they donāt oppose āevolutionā (because āeveryone has always known that things changeā), the minute you make clear that common descent is involved, then theyāre not so sure.
By the way, I was wrong ā¦ the oldest quote in the āImminent Demiseā article is not 1840 but 1825.
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