>Here is an article by Tom Bethell, originally in this month's The American
>Spectator and now at the Discovery Institute's website, on the Intelligent
>Design movement.
>
>Maybe the last paragraph is the key one:
>
>"Phil Johnson's strategy is to show that the facts of biology do not fit the
>materialist preconception. He aims to drive a wedge between the two. It is
>an encouraging sign that he has attracted to his side people of the caliber of
>Behe, Nelson, Wells, Meyer, and Dembski. The president of the Discovery
>Institute, Bruce Chapman, who has had the courage to help fund this
>movement, says that the question of evolution `not only has a direct
>bearing on the integrity of science, it also has immense importance for our
>culture. The materialist superstition has affected our learning in all
>academic disciplines.'"
wait a minute!!! If they've got all that money, why aren't they funding
scientific research? Why throw their money away on a propagandist like
Johnson? If they've got money to burn like that they should be advancing
the cause of *science*. I thought intelligent design was going to have all
kinds of scientific benefit to our society!
Or could it be that they know intelligent-design-as-science is hogwash and
they have no intention of wasting money on it?
Susan
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