First, whether or not the ‘Darwinian paradigm’ is crumbling depends on what the next generation thinks and does. As long as the paradigm retains its current levels of control over who and what passes as ‘scientific’, I see little prospect for change. I doubt that any particular piece of evidence will change minds by itself. One should not underestimate the amount of bigotry against Christianity at work here, albeit in the relatively unself-conscious way that in the past had been associated with anti-Semitism. (I am especially struck by how self-regarding ‘liberals’ are quick to bring up how the supposed financial might of ID people distorts scientific discourse.) What is required for the sort of change that Meyer would like to see is a more systemic disillusionment with the scientific establishment in terms of its failure to live up to its own ideals. My guess is that this is more likely to help ID’s fortunes than any new research, which can always be spun in multiple ways.
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Note: A UD news writer (Denyse O’Leary)* remembers encountering an atheist professor in Toronto at the TVO station at Eglinton & Yonge some years ago. The prof swore that the ID-promoting Discovery Institute had scads of money. News writer, as it happened, had visited their office in 2007. The DI crowd were a great bunch, but their office was the usual not-for-profit dump in what was (or should be) a low rent neighbourhood. (They’ve since moved, but from what I hear, the new digs aren’t that much better.)
So their luxury yachts must be anchored off their private islands somewhere …
PS: UD News* operates at least one division from somewhere near a cell tower somewhere in Canada, which narrows things down a lot. 😉