Talk:The Design Inference

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I don't understand why this article has a section about peer-review controversy. The current version claims

"The Discovery Institute's characterization of The Design Inference as a peer-reviewed scientific book has been dismissed by both critics of intelligent design and the judge in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, a claim that clearly demonstrates their bias (since ID material has been published in multiple peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Molecular Biology, the Journal of Theoretical Biology, the Annual Review of Genetics, etc)."

A close reading of the Dover judgement shows that the conclusion is that there are no peer-reviewed journal articles. This book is not mentioned in the judgement. Unless someone can supply a citation of a source which claims that this book was not peer-reviewed I shall delete the section. The claim of bias is in any case POV and should be reworded or removed. --Drallim 19:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I rewrote the inaccurate statement about the Dover judgement (again) "In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District in December 2005, United States District Judge John E. Jones III in his ruling stated "A final indicator of how ID has failed to demonstrate scientific warrant is the complete absence of peer-reviewed publications supporting the theory." . . . "evidence presented in this case demonstrates that ID is not supported by any peer-reviewed research, data or publications." [1] ". What the ellipsis hides is the definition of peer review being used there which is "peer review involves scientists submitting a manuscript to a scientific journal in the field, journal editors soliciting critical reviews from other experts in the field", so that the other statements clearly do not refer to books. Drallim 13:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)