Sep 12, 2005 / 22:00 pm
In the ongoing debate over intelligent design and evolution (in its many forms), a new article in the Columbia Journalism Review is raising some eyebrows with its suggestion that when it comes to evolution, journalistic fairness may not apply.
Terry Mattingly, religion writer for the Scripps-Howard News Service wrote yesterday on his web log, GetReligion.org, that the piece, entitled ‘Undoing Darwinism’, argues that “American journalists must stop acting as if there is any kind of scientific argument left to cover related to Darwinism.”
“Thus,” he says, “’fairness’ does not apply, since there are no critics of Darwinian orthodoxy worthy of being treated fairly.”
According to Mattingly, the article seems to suggest that “all the critics are religious nuts and there is no need to take their claims seriously or present their arguments accurately.”