The blogworld of creationist and cdesign proponentsists has been buzzing about the Altenberg 16 and the secret meeting coming up in austria. Typical of the commentary is this from telicthoughts.

What it amounts to is a gathering of 16 biologists and philosophers of rock star stature – let’s call them “the Altenberg 16″ – who recognize that the theory of evolution which most practicing biologists accept and which is taught in classrooms today, is inadequate in explaining our existence.

TelicThoughts specializes in analyzing science news and asserting new discoveries support creationism rather than supporting what the resesearchers say their findings support.

So is this the beginning of the end for Darwinism? Let’s see what the organizer of the Altenberg conferences has to say:

Is there fundamental scientific disagreement about evolutionary theory?

Creationists and their intellectual cousins, intelligent design proponents, keep saying that scientists disagree as to “the truth” of evolution, and that the field is therefore in crisis, despite official attempts by scientists to deny any problem and unite under the evil cause of fighting “the truth” about Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. As is common in these circumstances, some creationist claims are in fact correct, but trivially so, while the use that creationists attempt to make of the claims themselves is highly (and possibly willfully) misleading.

So far, not so good for the cdesign proponentsists. After explaining the puropse of the meeting, the article opines:

Now, did you see anything in the above that suggests that evolution is “a theory in crisis”? Did I say anything about intelligent designers, or the rejection of Darwinism, or any of the other nonsense that has filled the various uninformed and sometimes downright ridiculous commentaries that have appeared on the web about the Altenberg meeting? Didn’t think so.

Oops.