UncommonDescent has suddenly closed down. The URL leads to an archive, with one farewell message from its original founder Dembski. He doesn’t say why it halted.
At this point I won’t miss it. About a year ago Denyse pulled out, briefly replaced by Eric Hedin, then he was gone. Since then it’s been solely occupied by the Scholastics with their endless high-precision high-tension arguments about how many decimal points can dance on the head of a pin.
The related sites of Discovery.org are still running normally, with no mention of UD’s demise.
Later and better thought: It’s good to see an organization breaking out of the Parkinson trap. UD lost its sense of purpose, for reasons I don’t need to know. Most organizations try to keep going without a purpose, and turn sour. UD had clearly fallen into that zone, so it needed to dissolve and let the participants find more purposeful ways to use their talents.
LIFE IS PURPOSE.
Ford: “There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.”
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