Having had a bit more time to look through David’s blog, it is clear that he has some rather strange views. For example, he has stated that:
“Professor Andy McIntosh is a man on the highest rung of UK academia, and with more scientific credentials than I can repeat without tying my tongue in knots.”
David seems to think that just because a person has many academic qualifications in a given speciality, that this somehow qualifies them as an authority in other specialities where they are not academically qualified. This is clearly absurd & when used as a weapon to stifle criticism is nothing more than crude form of argument by authority. For example, he states:
“Professor McIntosh alone appears to have more scientific qualifications than the entire membership for the BCSE put together.”
Surely David must realise that being well qualified in one speciality, gives an individual absolutely no authority or standing in another, unrelated one. Looking at Andy McIntosh’s list of qualifications, they all seem to be in engineering. Nowhere is there the slightest evidence that he has ever studied biology let alone evolutionary biology. Yet here he is being portrayed as an unquestionable authority in these subjects.
It is blindingly obvious that Andy McIntosh is no more qualified to pontificate on the shortcomings of evolutionary biology than the janitor who empties his wastepaper bin, yet David never really seems to get it.
But then David rarely seems to get anything & you only have to look at the sites he has listed on his blog. For example, there is, Answers in Genesis, which is filled with hard-core fundamentalist material (I personally think it is sick). Yet David is trying to convince everyone that TIS are promoting a scientific viewpoint rather than a religious one – talk about shooting yourself in the head!