Of Pigs and Lipstick


Things have gotten so bad for ID advocates that they have to try to snatch
any sort of victory from the rubble back in Pennsylvania. Anthony Paul
Mator is in _World_ Magazine trying to dress up the latest school board
foolish enough to flirt with paying massive legal fees for little in the
way of anti-evolution impact as some sort of sign of hope.

After noting both the political and legal victories for science education
in Dover, and trotting out the obligatory kvetch about not being allowed to
challenge "science's sacred dogma" with religious sacred dogma, Mator
rather pathetically says:

But a Southern California school district on March 21 demonstrated
that winter is over and spring is bringing new hope to ID proponents:
The Lancaster, Calif., school board of trustees unanimously adopted
a science policy that allows teachers to discuss problems in Darwin's
theory. The new policy, while not calling for the teaching of ID,
discourages a view of evolution as "unalterable fact."
<http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11703>

While the policy is hardly benign, it is a husk of the Discovery
Institute's dreams, stated in the Wedge Document
<http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Wedge_document> that, by now, they would
be in the midst of rectifying "ideological imbalance" in science curricula
by the inclusion of design theory.

Mator stumbles over the truth, even though he tries hard not to see it:

The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, a pro-ID think tank, endorses
the strategy of exposing the holes in Darwinism rather than offering
alternative theories. The reason: True scientific research acknowledges
inconsistencies or gaps in data, but when ID is taught in the classroom,
the public often perceives this as religious indoctrination.

Sometimes the public just gets it right.

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J. Pieret
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[I]n its relation to Christianity, intelligent design
should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation . . .

- William A. Dembski -

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