Talk:Michael Polanyi Center

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This article contradicts itself

The entry says Dembski was fired, later the article says he was relived of his directorship. This is not good. I'll try and clean it up when I get some time unless someone beats me to it. Oh and the part about he was fired for attacking scientists and all should probably be worded in a manner that is more neutral and more descriptive. "Attacking" can mean many things. And when I read the email he sent the terms "whining" and "childish" comes to my mind and not attacking, but that's not very neutral either. Mr Christopher 22:28, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

On second thought I simply removed the offending sentence from the entry paragraph which I think solves the problem (it was the source of the contradiction and such):

"Its director, William Dembski, was fired after he attacked scientists and his boss in an email."

If someone feels the Dembski drama belongs in the entry by all means add it but I think we should avoid using the term "attacked" without a good cite for it and instead use something more descriptive and more neutral. And we should also avoid saying he was fired :-) Mr Christopher 22:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Moved from the article

I removed this from the article because the article is about the Center, not Dembski, it states a viewpoint as a fact, and it was grammatically awkward. If there's anything relevant to the article here, lets rewrite it and put it back in. Odd nature 15:36, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Intelligent Design at Baylor Since

Since Dembski left Baylor in May 2005, he has remained active in the Waco area, where Baylor is located, and collaborated with Baylor engineering faculty on intelligent-design related projects. The founding by Baylor engineer Robert J. Marks II in June of 2007 of Baylor University's Evolutionary Informatics Laboratoryhighlights Dembski's work on its publications page. The "invention" of evolutionary informatics through this lab clearly suggests that the legacy of the Polanyi Center continues at Baylor. This lab describes itself on its homepage in the following terms:

Evolutionary informatics merges theories of evolution and information, thereby wedding the natural, engineering, and mathematical sciences. Evolutionary informatics studies how evolving systems incorporate, transform, and export information. Baylor University’s Evolutionary Informatics Laboratory explores the conceptual foundations, mathematical development, and empirical application of evolutionary informatics. The principal theme of the lab’s research is teasing apart the respective roles of internally generated and externally applied information in the performance of evolutionary systems.

The reference here to "externally applied information" is clearly a veiled reference to intelligent design.

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