Now physics is wrong too

When the first reports came out saying Einstein's relativity may be wrong in at least some details, some commented on how the ID/IOT community would treat it. An article dealing the same way with biology, and evolution in particular, would be trumpted as "proof" that "evolution is disproven".

Now it seems some of the ID/IOT crowd has taken an interest in the topic.

What interests me is why the ID crowd cares about this issue. After all, they have enough to do trying to re-brand science as religion and creationism as science. As is usual with this group, the answer is marketing. To improve the likelihood of people believing that biological science is a dogma it is helpful to try to show that the same is true of all science, even physics.

In my list of creationist tactics, I have:

1) Interpret Any Uncertainty Anywhere In Science As Implying Total Uncertainty Everywhere In Science. Science is by nature tentative. Anything on the cutting edge is going to have considerable uncertainty attached to it. Anything science is certain about now will be found to have had considerable uncertainty attached to it at some point in history. As soon as any evidence of any uncertainty is found, present it and claim that scientists therefore don't know what they're talking about.

Closely related, we have:

2) Trumpet Any Mistakes Made By Any Scientist, And Ignore The Fact That These Mistakes Are Corrected. Most people in your audience will not be well versed in the history of science. You can flood an audience with accounts of mistakes in science, and accounts of things scientists thought that are now known not to be true. With enough such accounts, you can build a superficially compelling picture of "Science Always Getting It Wrong". Even experts in the history of science will not be able to directly address all the examples you bring up. Anything left unaddressed can be waved in front of the audience as "not refuted". You can then use the fact that something has been left unrefuted to claim that everything has been left unrefuted.

A review of the arguments offered by professional evolution debunkers will invariably feature at least one of these twelve tactics. Any number of amateurs fall for the pros' scam every year.