[asa] CDESIGN PROPONETSISTS

I do not know if this is old news or not, but did anyone see Nova last night? It was a short documentary about the Dover trial.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/

It is worth watching if and when they broadcast it again.

One of the more illuminating and ironic segments regarded the different drafts of Pandas and People. The lawyers for the plaintiff were trying to prove that ID was just a repackaging of what had previously been called creationism. One of the pieces of evidence was text from comparing pre and post Edwards editions of Pandas and People. After the Edwards decision the editors wanted to take "creationism" out of the book. One of the witnesses for the plaintiff found a couple of example where creationism/creator was changed to ID/design, with otherise identical wording. But the most humorous and ironic example was an attempt to remove the word creationist with the words design proponents. But something went wrong in the editing, and the actual wording in the post-Edwards draft was cdesign proponentsists. So, unkowingly, they created a "transitional form", and clear evidence that the authors of Pandas equate ID with creationism.

I had never heard that little detail before, and thought it was worth mentioning here.

I think CDESIGN PROPONETSISTS would make a great bumper sticker.

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Received on Wed Nov 14 08:07:03 2007