Reply #8: yes, unusually intelligent for the Globe blog

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(and even edited/moderated, too! A lot seem to have been removed. . )

My favorites were those from
Davelu (Pg 1)

I am astounded, absolutely astounded, that the Globe would publish something from an outfit as discredited as the Discovery Institute.. .

Barry1Roberts2 (pg 1)

Davelu is absolutely correct. The Boston Globe has lost its bearings. In the last two weeks the BG has showcased (1) A log in Ireland that resembles the Virgin Mary, (2) a Sunday article expounding on faith-based miracles, (3) today's rubbish from a creationist propagandists. Is it because it is summer and the best writers are on vacation? Or, is it a sign of the BG's inexorable decline prior to bankrupcy.

Gaston.x (pg 2)

The reader Davelu is correct...

That Mayer would write such a piece is understandable, but the Boston Globe has dropped another notch in its credibility as a reputable paper by allowing such rubbish to be published in its Op-Ed section.

BuffaloGuy (pg 3)

Wow, we already have Jeff Jacoby to provide the weekly imbecility; we don't need this thinly veiled creationist tripe.

Jefferson was a creature of his enlightenment environment, wrestling like many others to reconcile his observations of nature within his still strictly religious surroundings. Contradiction was a common theme in Jefferson's intellectual life; take for example the discordance between his beliefs in the rights of man and his ownership of slaves.

. . . . Had Jefferson lived long enough to read Darwin's writings a half century later (he surely would have devoured the books) or lived long enough to see the first stirrings genetic theory he certainly would have immediately grasped their implications.

and DrHolloway (pg 6, 12:29, 7/15)

Its a bad reflection on the Globe's journalism that they printed an article from the Discovery Institute, not because the DI's views shouldn't be printed, but because there are other options they could have taken that would present those views along with objective facts. The Globe didn't even bother to inform the its readers of what the DI is, and what its been involved in. I wouldn't have been so concerned if they had chosen to print pro and con articles, or, even better, an article on the ID creationism campaign by someone reputable, like Ken Miller of Brown, for instance. I'm sure there must be a biology educator in Boston that's an expert in the problems with creationism in biology education. Why not have an op-ed on the subject from someone that knows what they're talking about, and not solely a propaganda piece.

. . .(and a little later. .)
12:46

Shame on me for thinking this of course, but the Discovery Institute would have been happy to pay the Globe a large amount of money to print this article. But then they'd mark it as a paid ad, wouldn't they?

Glad these comments were so good. . .I didn't have time this week to weigh in myself. .