Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Controlling Fallout
"Nearly five months after the [Dover] ruling, the Discovery Institute is fighting to control fallout from the decision," reports David Postman in The Seattle Times.
Discovery's hometown paper reports that, "[e]ven some critics of evolution have taken the ruling as a sign that the fight to bring intelligent design into public schools may be over."
"Dover is a disaster in a sense, as a public-relations matter," said Bruce Chapman, a former Seattle city councilman and founder of the Discovery Institute, the country's primary supporter of intelligent design. "It has given a rhetorical weapon to the Darwinists to say a judge has settled this," he said.
Discovery's hometown paper reports that, "[e]ven some critics of evolution have taken the ruling as a sign that the fight to bring intelligent design into public schools may be over."
