February 13, 2007

Misleading by design?

The Wall Street Journal ran a weekend review of Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul — a new book on the Dover, PA creationism trial by friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes — but the paper neglected to mention the “reviewer” is a long-time Intelligent Design advocate with a history of using critique to slag projects that expose flaws in ID. Ed has a great little blog item about it here.

You’ll remember the Dover, PA creationism controversy: Dover is the town Pat Robertson cursed when voters ousted school board members who insisted that Intelligent Design be taught to high school students as science. “I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God — you just rejected Him from your city,” said Robertson. Read more from the Washington Post.

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