I’m quoted in Science & Theology News criticizing ID’s new blog:
Unlike most blogs, however, Intelligent Design The Future does not let readers respond online to the posts. Reed Cartwright, a contributor to the evolution blog called The Panda’s Thumb, said preventing readers from adding their comments to the online discussion about intelligent design, also known as ID, shows that those who created it are not interested in running an actual blog.
“If ID is the future, as the title of the blog advertises, can’t it withstand criticism?” said Cartwright, a doctoral candidate in genetics at the University of Georgia. “I think that it is ironic that a movement, which claims to want ‘more discussion’ about biology in schools, does not allow discussion [on their blog].”
Although there has been a lot of blogging done to respond to the entries in “ID the Future”, it would sure be handy to have sustained threads for each post - as you would have were comments enabled. One approach to this that I have wondered about: why not set up a blog in which you post abbreviated versions of their posts (essentially the same format in which you refer to posts in other blogs), and enable comments in that blog?
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