I wanted to ping you to this article to hear your reaction to it. This describes the high tech lynching that even religious scientists(who other wise do excellent scientific work) may face if they step beyond the careful ideology of the Evolutionary Elites.
Note the section on e-mails. Note the under the radar investigation of Sternberg's back-ground. The pressure on him has been so great that he lost his wife to divorce on account of the politics of personal destruction.
Evolutionary Biology stands or falls based on experimental data and conclusions that can be falsified or tested and reliably reproduced. Time and discovery will ultimately direct the fate of evolutionary theory as a viable science. That has never been my real beef with evolutionists.
Having contempt and disrepect of traditional morality, the political gamesmanship of certain of the Evolutionary Upper crust is what I have a beef with. Its the disingenuous mind games that have folks such as the Kansas school board in an uproar. George Orwell's 1984 may have been describing the "newsspeak" of certain of the Scientific Elite. Sternberg was the victim of career killing high tech lynching...perhaps he and Justice Thomas can commiserate here!
Of course you have a Catholic with a Jewish name "Sternberg" so who knows if mis-directed anti-semitism isn't part of the issue here!
We've had several threads on this, back when it was news. Here's one: Smithsonian in uproar over intelligent-design article. Here's another, and it contains links to others:
Smithsonian Scientist's Complaint Backed [or "unsupported" -- about the Meyer ID article].
Of course you have a Catholic with a Jewish name "Sternberg" so who knows if mis-directed anti-semitism isn't part of the issue here!
Good ol' "Rick Sternberg" is actually named Richard von Sternberg.