NRO Article

[Eastman, John]

The tyrannical orthodoxy of the Darwinian crowd is truly amazing.
Herein the key charge by University of Texas professor Brian Leiter:

 

"The author of this incompetent book note [a review of Francis
Beckwith's book on intelligent design]. . . is one Lawrence VanDyke, a
student editor of the [Harvard Law] Review. Mr. VanDyke may yet have a
fine career as a lawyer, but I trust he has no intention of entering law
teaching: scholarly fraud is, I fear, an inauspicious beginning for an
aspiring law teacher. And let none of the many law professors who are
readers of this site be mistaken: Mr. VanDyke has perpetrated a
scholarly fraud, one that may have political and pedagogical
consequences (italics mine)."

 

Scholarly fraud?  That is a pretty serious accusations and, from what I
have learned of the science on the subject, clearly false.  Has Leiter
opened himself up to a libel claim? Have the devotees of Darwinism grown
so concerned about the correctness of their own theories that they have
to resort to the ad hominum in response to a challenge to the Darwinian
citadel that takes seriously Darwin's own methodology?

 

John Eastman

Chapman University School of Law

 

-----Original Message-----
From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Duncan
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 12:30 PM
To: religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu
Subject: NRO Article

 

I found an article at National Review Online that I thought you'd like
to

see:

 

   http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/baker200403150909.asp

 

FYI. An interesting religionlaw article.

 

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