Percy writes:
It more than just hurts their cause, it's fatal. The Discovery Institute must cringe in horror as their efforts to portray ID as legitimate science are translated at the grass roots level into claims about God and Bible.
This makes me wonder. How come the DI doesn't try harder to tell their followers to stop referring to ID as religion? They've been trying very hard to convince the rest of the country that ID is not religion. Why aren't they asserting the same kind of effort on their supporters?
They don't have to convince their supporters that ID is not religion. All they have to do is quietly pass a note around saying "shhhh... don't let the evil atheists know ID is religion."
In fact, I also question the DI's general approach to seeking out supporters. Everytime there are creationists who want to bring god into the science classroom, the DI would show up and present their "theory" of ID. If ID is truly a legitimate scientific "theory" with no religion involved, how come they always seek out the most religious and hardcore creationists of the religious and hardcore creationists? Wouldn't this defeat their stated goal, which is to pass ID as a legit scientific theory?
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