Unless it can be shown otherwise, the evidence suggests that intelligent design is an evolution of creation "science" designed to get around the U.S. Supreme Court decision Edwards v. Aguillard.
One of the best examples of this is the book Of Pandas and People and their famous cdesign proponentsists.
Why exactly does this imply that the intelligent design movement as a whole is derived from creationist roots? I can perhaps agree that FTE changed from a creationist organization to advocating ID. However, this hardly implies that the movement as a whole is creationist. Michael Behe was a christian both before and after he rejected evolution. In fact, he currently advocates a set of beliefs that are very anti-creationist. Berlinski was, and still is, an agnostic.
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