Where did the IDers go?

In previous item I cited the basic evolution by subtraction rule, true for genomes and languages and human inventions.

Reminded me of a nonbark I’ve been noticing. The advocates of Intelligent Design seem to have disappeared from the web. UncommonDescent closed a few years ago when its founder got tired of supporting it. I suspect the main players soiled the nest with NASTY disputations over minuscule subdetails. Last month, trying to widen my inputs after a narrowly focused year, I checked a couple of old favorites. MercatorNet.org is also gone. MindMatters is still there, but seems to have lost its flavor and purpose.

I don’t see anyone focusing on the subject at Substack or Quora. Searching publications for ‘intelligent design’ only leads to some graphic designers who claim to be designing smartly!

In some ways the design side has won, moving the central tendency away from the automatic assumption of Mendelian genes and Watson-Crick evolution. Mainstream articles often start a sentence with We were designed to… instead of We evolved to…

Putting it another way, the mainstream has finally admitted that Lysenko was right, and the earliest Euro scientists derived from Islam were right. At the same time, the mainstream ALSO continues to hate Lysenko because we are required to hate Russia.