Discovery Institute: The Intelligent Designer was a Eugenicist

December 19th, 2007 EmmaPeel

For years now, we’ve been pleading for intelligent design advocates to tell us something - anything - about this Intelligent Designer, the existence of whom they are so sure is implied by the facts of biology. But for years now, they’ve adamantly denied that they have any interest in speculating about the Designer, His identity, His motives, or His methods.

Granted, in the beginning they were loudly proclaiming that the study of ID would help pull society back from the brink of destruction caused by our rampant belief in godless evolution, but when challenged by scientists on ID as science, they insisted that they were only interested in “design-centric” research programmes, not “designer-centric” ones.

But that mask of studied disinterest in the Designer Himself may have slipped. Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute thinks that a study of skull shapes of St. Bernards, released in late October, actually helps make the case for ID instead of for evolution as the study authors claim, and his reasoning is, er, disturbing…
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