From: rokimoto557@gmail.com   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icons_of_Evolution   
      
   It likely is telling that the ID perps are trying to elevate one of   
   their most disreputable members in terms of science denial and   
   dishonesty.  Claiming that Wells was the Newton of the ID creationist   
   scam is pathetic.   
      
   I put up a Wiki link to Wells' book that is under discussion, and all   
   the book was, was a rehash of anti-science creationist arguments that   
   had been used for decades by the Scientific creationists before Wells   
   became an ID perp by joining the Discovery Institute creationist Wedge   
   faction.   
      
   Wells' icons   
   1	Miller–Urey experiment   
   2	Darwin's tree of life   
   3	Homology in vertebrate limbs   
   4	Haeckel's embryos   
   5	Archaeopteryx   
   6	Peppered moth   
   7	Darwin's finches   
   8	Four-winged fruit flies   
   9	Fossil horses   
   10	Hominid evolution   
      
   All of them were being used to deceive creationist rubes who wanted to   
   believe the scientific creationists before the Supreme Court decision in   
   1985 that spawned the name change from creationism to intelligent design   
   among the ID perps.  Wells just continued the dishonest   
   misrepresentation of the same material.   
      
   There is no question that all 10 were abused by the scientific   
   creationists decades before Wells repeated the abuse in his book.  In   
   reality these were among the Icons of scientific creationism   
   anti-science.  They were the common topics that the scientific   
   creationists would lie about in order to deny the science that they   
   didn't like, and all the scientific creationist bogus arguments failed   
   to impress the Supreme Court, just as Wells' book had no impact on any   
   competent and informed honest individuals.   
      
   #1 is #3 of the ID perps' Top Six (the origin of life denial).  #2 is #5   
   of the ID perps' Top Six (includes the Cambrian explosion).  #10 is #6   
   of the ID perps' Top Six (gaps in the human fossil record).  #1, 2, and   
   4 (the Big Bang, fine tuning, and IC (flagellum, blood clotting, and   
   adaptive immune response) respectively) of the ID perps' Top Six were   
   not included in Wells' book likely because #1 and 2 aren't in   
   introductory biology textbooks and Behe's type of IC has never been   
   determined to exist in nature, so textbooks can't be faulted for not   
   mentioning it.  The Top Six gap denial arguments were all used by the   
   scientific creationists long before they lost out in the Supreme Court   
   case in 1985.   
      
   Anyone just has to compare the 10 in Wells' book to the rest of the   
   creationist Icons of scientific creationist denial to know how bogus   
   Wells' book has to be.  There are a lot of creationist Icons that aren't   
   in honest biology textbooks.  The second law of thermodynamics,   
   bombardier beetle, piltdown man, bull frog proteins, Gish's half cow   
   half whale transitional, all the fossil gap arguments etc.  The gene   
   sharing between bananas and humans is still going around, and Gish had   
   his flagellum is a designed machine that could not have evolved over a   
   decade before Behe used the argument.   
      
   The scientific creationist misused all 10 of Wells' icons decades before   
   Wells wrote his book.  They are all among the icons of creationist   
   science denial.  Such is the legacy of the Newton of the ID creationist   
   scam.  All 10 were routine parts of the Gish gallop, though, probably,   
   not all were included all the time, but Gish would cram as much denial   
   into the Gish gallop as he could.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
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