"West also accused Utah Sen. Chris Buttars -- who has written legislation mandating divine design -- with "hijacking intelligent design" by conflating creationism with intelligent design."

It was hijacked from within starting on day #1.

Phil Johnson, Michael Behe, Bill Dembski and Jonathan Wells have all made statements in which they link ID with their particular vision of a Christian God. The early ID conferences scheduled prayer meetings. At the hearings in Kansas, exactly how many of the people associated with the Discovery Institute testified that the age of the earth was definitely more than a few million years old?

Not linked to creationism? Pah.
Unsympathetic reader | 06.25.05 - 4:39 pm | #

This couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys. It was all about power in the beginning--their power--to do with as they pleased, to whomever they pleased, in whichever way they pleased. Now they're squabbling over who gets to sit where at the table, and it's not particularly surprising. Bullet, meet foot; foot, bullet.

kdn
Kevin Nyberg | 06.25.05 - 5:39 pm | #

Just FYI, the book's title is "Of Pandas and People" -- the post has the P-words switched.
Dave Williams | 07.03.05 - 11:15 am | #