Six Days to Go: The Bottomless Wells

Well, I continue to peruse The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design in anticipation of the debate tonight. (11 pm ET, the Alan Colmes Show, website here.) By this point in the text, Wells is done debunking evolution; now he's on to promoting intelligent design. In the "debunk evolution" section, he tried to undermine evidence from the fossil record, embryology, molecular phylogeny, and speciation. None of these attacks were convincing, but what's even more illuminating are the strands of evolutionary evidence that got completely ignored: biogeography, DNA evidence, homology, and so on. Not that we want to give Wells any ideas, of course. Anyway, now the defense of ID begins, and instead of running roughshod over the scientific literature, we suddenly get all the arguments by all of the people affiliated with the Discovery Institute (which are almost never in the scientific literature): Behe, Meyer, Dembski, Minnich, Gonzalez, ...