Bill Dembski notes that Darwinist bloggers are ecstatic that the Ohio State Board of Education has removed "critical analysis of evolution" from its standards and wonders whether:
[T]here is any other field of inquiry - other than evolution, that is - whose advocates become ecstatic when critical analysis of its subject is suppressed. Usually, advocates of a position are happy to entertain critical analysis because such criticism highlights the importance of their subject and facilitates its further development. Of course, there's a qualifier that needs to be added to this question: Are there any legitimate fields of inquiry that discourage critical analysis of their subject areas?
Good questions. The reaction of the anti-ID crowd to this step by the Ohio Board looks less like the response of dispassionate objective scientists and very much more like the reaction of religious enthusiasts.
