>... ASA FAILED to grasp the opportunity to sponsor the ID controversy.
>SO the Discovery Institute got a foothold and now Discovery is setting the agenda.
>ASA has become a forum for the people who are left behind.
>Frankly, I do not care whether you listen or not. Lots of organizations just wither. But I did think I ought to warn you
>that that is happening.
>If you see any future for yourselves, begin by involving more ID mavens in your inner circles so you can adopt and
>manage the controversy, instead of just being biffed around by it and writing plaintive letters to whoever about how
>you are misrepresented in journals.
>My guess is that ASA has about three years to do something smart like that, and then it won't matter any more
>whether it does or not.
>Cheers, Denyse
>P.S.: I speak frankly because, as a journalist, I don't qualify for mem'ship in ASA and tend to blow clear of non-media-
>pro orgs anyway (to avoid potential conflict of interest). So I can't benefit from association with you, but thought I
>would help by warning you. If not, just forget it. - d.
Denyse is telling the truth. The ASA is impotent and is left behind(search the archives where I said this or something like it several years ago). They blew it on design. I would disagree with one thing. I personally think it is already too late because the medicine (design) is far too distasteful to the membership.
I have run groups responsible for tens of millions of dollars of investments. I know a thing or two about how the world works and how it doesn't. One doesn't get anywhere in the world by "writing plaintive letters to whoever about how you are misrepresented". If you have to do that, you have already lost the game. RIP ASA
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