Friday, August 26, 2005
Mysterious
Jill Lawrence of USA Today sets the table for the upcoming Dover intelligent design court case and school board election – both coming up this fall.
The key for science supporters is that most people do not yet know what intelligent design is. That means there is an opportunity to frame this discussion. Let’s take advantage of it.Yet despite all the attention they've drawn, critics of evolution are losing in court and making little headway so far in most state legislatures and school boards. And intelligent design remains mysterious to many; more than half in the latest USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll say they are not
familiar with it.