William Dembski: Spinning Faster than a Whirling Dervish

William Dembski seems to be all in a huff over Kevin Padian's recent book review in Nature (Nature 448, 253-254). In short summary, Dembski begins with a false assessment and faulty aspiration, enters into a non sequitur discussion, and ends with a discussion of the back-slapping from his cronies and fellow misfits.

I especially enjoy Dembski's flaunting of his degrees and denouncing of others. Aside from his digression from Christian humility, his pandering to academic titles and associations as opposed to the arguments at hand is nothing new. Evasion is the key tactic of the intelligent design advocate, and the better rhetorical fluff surrounding your words the better.

Aside from that observation, I have been doodling in the margins of some of Dembski's original works. I doubt I can make as such a strong mathematical argument as Richard Wein (whom Dembski dismisses solely for his degree and not the arguments) or Wesley Elsberry and Jeffery Shallit. Or maybe I can and actually press a quantitative answer from Dembski, else he would be made a fool by an undergraduate.

I can only dream concerning his history of evasion.