Ann Gauger is a zoologist with a BS in biology from MIT and a 1989 PhD from the University of Washington.
The problem is not one's education or credentials.
The problem is that to be associated with the Discovery Institute or any of the other similar religious-based fundamentalist organizations one
must accept their particular religious beliefs. And the organizations' religious beliefs are
always seen as superseding scientific evidence. It is obvious that religious belief can negate even the most distinguished academic education and credentials.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
Refer back to the Wedge document I linked to earlier. Those folks want to destroy "materialistic" science and replace it with "theistic" science.
Here's a good analysis of the Wedge document by the Sensuous Curmudgeon:
What is the “Wedge Document”? | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
The Discovery Institute folks are clearly anti-science, and not a credible source for anything pertaining to science.
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other points of view--William F. Buckley Jr.