“We Are Losing This Battle”— And “Knee-Jerk Atheism” Isn’t Helping Darwinian Meltdown Over Intelligent Design By J. Richard Pearcey Feb. 21, 2006 -- High profile atheists and evolutionists Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins “are absolute disasters in the fight against intelligent design.” So says equally high profile skeptic Michael Ruse, philosophy professor at Florida State University, in a letter published February 20 at Uncommon Descent, the weblog of William Dembski, one of the leaders of the intelligent design movement. “We are losing this battle,” Ruse flatly asserts in the letter to Dennett, a professor of philosophy at Tufts University. Why...