One passing thought

I read this article by the preeminent professor of public understanding of science (sounds like some kind of priesthood or apostleship for the religion of science), Richard Dawkins, and his co-author Jerry Coyne, through a link from Evolution News & Views. One thing in the Dawkins-Coyne article that struck me was their comparison of those advocating design to the Holocaust deniers:

Similarly, in a class on 20th-century European history, who would demand equal time for the theory that the Holocaust never happened?

But wait a minute! We do not give equal time to the theory that the Holocaust never happened because there are many evidences that taken together provide convincing inference that the Holocaust did take place, and did so by design of evil men, not through some kind of accidental mechanism. Why not play by the same rule in the realm of biology—more specifically, historical biology, to which the theory of evolution properly belongs? We see so many evidences of design, which the atheistic scientists must admit (for even they speak of “apparent design”), but what rules of inference require us to conclude that they are not the result of design?

Therefore, if the comparison with Holocaust deniers is to be drawn, then it is the evolutionists who are the deniers, not those advocating design.