Darwinists Concede Wikipedia Erased Bechly for Coming Out in Favor of Intelligent Design | Evolution News
Our distinguished paleontologist colleague Günter Bechly was
erased from Wikipedia after he came out as a proponent of the theory of intelligent design. That, in turn, was after he had already been pushed out of his curator role at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, for the same reason. The editors at
Wikipedia obscured their treatment of Günter, a world-class expert on dragonflies, by claiming his heresy on ID had nothing to do with the decision to excise him. Instead, they innocently proclaimed that it was due to the realization that he isn’t “notable” enough for the online encyclopedia.
I’ve already pointed out the problems with this contention, and noted that the editors of Bechly’s page and of the grossly distorted Intelligent Design page itself
make little effort to hide the ideological axes they grind. There’s little mystery about what happened to Dr. Bechly, or to another ID advocate,
Walter Bradley at Baylor University, whose
Wiki entry was shredded to near nothing. This is one way the scientific consensus on evolution is maintained, by threatening dissenters. For a scientist, having your accomplishments erased is the ultimate punishment.
Wiki editors meanwhile indulge atheist nobodies with extensive biography entries.
All this we knew, but it’s still satisfying to see it affirmed by Darwinists themselves. Israel’s best-known newspaper, the secular, left-leaning
Haaretz, picked up on the Bechly story. The headline from what’s often called the
New York Times of Israel says, “
A Respected Scientist Comes Out Against Evolution – and Loses His Wikipedia Page.” And that is pretty close to the truth, though I would say that to support ID isn’t to “come out against evolution” but rather to affirm an alternative to the Darwinian explanation of what drives evolution. But never mind.
The translation from Hebrew in the English edition of
Haaretz leaves something to be desired, with Günter’s last name misspelled repeatedly as “Blechy” or “Blechly.” Naturally, there’s a spray of the standard vacuous insults directed ID as a “pseudoscience rehash of creationism.”
On the other hand, in a welcome move, they embed a clip from the recent documentary
Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machine in which Dr. Bechly gets to tell some of his own story (shades of the
New York Times and its
recent Retro Report on intelligent design).
