{"id":34,"date":"2008-03-02T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/03\/02\/the_biologic_institute_has_evolved\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T22:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:29:03","slug":"the_biologic_institute_has_evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/03\/02\/the_biologic_institute_has_evolved\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biologic Institute has evolved!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s true. The Biologic Institute<\/a>, the research arm of the Discovery Institute<\/a> (the main pushers of Intelligent Design) has evolved. Or at least its web page has.<\/p>\n


\nThe Biologic Institute is an odd institution. Not just that its purpose is to bolster the case for ID (I’m happy for them to be doing that, as long they’re doing decent science). But they don’t want to talk about their work. Indeed, it appears that talking to the press can lead to removal from their board<\/a>. They also aren’t keen on people talking about their results. Last year they had a conference, but didn’t want any of the delegates to talk about it<\/a>.
\nIt’s bizarre that one gets more information about the institute from Wikipedia<\/a> than from their own pages. For some time, their web site has been some fancy graphics<\/a>, and a note saying “Coming Soon…”. It has been like this for over a year (and the labs were set up in 2005!).
\nBut now it’s all changed. They’ve expanded their pages<\/a>. The Church Burnin’ Ebola Boys(1) will be pleased to know that the cheesy poofs(2) are still there. But now we have this:
\nWelcome<\/em>
\nWelcome to Biologic Institute \u2013 a scientific research organization pioneering a fresh approach to studying, and thinking, about life.<\/em>
\nFollowed by a blog post<\/a>:
\nHello world!<\/em>
\nWelcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!<\/em>
\nrss \u2014 trackback \u2014 permalink<\/em>
\nResponses<\/em>
\n1. Mr WordPress July 2nd, 2007 at 1:05 pm<\/em>
\nHi, this is a comment.<\/em>
\nTo delete a comment, just log in and view the post’s comments. There you will have the option to edit or delete them.<\/em>
\nTheir Microsoft programmer has finally taken time off from his research to, well, write one sentence, and set up a blog. I would have responded to their post but, unlike Mr. WordPress, I can’t log in. Lucky Mr. WordPress, I bet he knows all their secrets.
\nUnfortunately none of the researchers have had time to actually blog anything. One wonders what they’re doing. Are they hard at work in the lab, slaving over a hot(3) petri dish? Too busy writing manuscripts? Or have they all been Expelled<\/a>?
\n(1) Don’t ask.
\n(2) Really don’t ask.
\n(3) Autoclaved. Otherwise life might evolve spontaneously in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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