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[Phys-L] Re: NYT article on where intelligent design comes from



On Sunday, Aug 21, 2005, John Denker wrote:

Like a well-tooled electoral campaign, the Discovery Institute has a
carefully crafted, poll-tested message, lively Web logs - and
millions of dollars from foundations run by prominent conservatives
like Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, Philip F. Anschutz and Richard
Mellon Scaife. The institute opened an office in Washington last fall
and in January hired the same Beltway public relations firm that
promoted the Contract With America in 1994.

"We are in the very initial stages of a scientific revolution," said
the center's director, Stephen C. Meyer, 47, a historian and
philosopher of science recruited by Discovery after he protested a
professor's being punished for criticizing Darwin in class. "We want
to have an effect on the dominant view of our culture."

... plus another 3000 words.

If you strike while the iron is hot, you can read it
without even having to register.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/national/
21evolve.html?ei=5094&en=0bd235262066da5c&hp=&ex=1124683200&partner=hom
epage&pagewanted=all

The second article that series appeared today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/national/22design.html?th&emc=th

They say that the first article was mostly about politics, the second
is about science and the third will be about religion.

Ludwik Kowalski
Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.