Reply #7: The NOVA special had a really great moment in it.

[TayTay]

The parents who were suing the Dover School Board over the mandatory introduction of Intelligent Design into the Dover school system hired a University professor to research the text book which had mysteriously showed up in the school public library one day. Now, creationism is explicitly excluded from the school curriculum. This is why we have the term intelligent design in the first place, because creationism is explicitly not allowed.

The text book in question is called "Of Pandas and People" and it has been through a number of revisions since the fund-raising for it began in the 1980's. It began before the "Edwards" court decision that explicitly excluded the term creationism as text that could be used in school science classes. The researcher, Barbara Forrest, found:

NARRATOR: Barbara Forrest's testimony would make a strong case that the Dover school board was thrusting religion into the classroom. And in comparing the Of Pandas and People drafts, Forrest discovered that the authors had apparently made their revisions in haste.

BARBARA FORREST: In cleansing this manuscript, they failed to replace every word properly. I found the word "creationists." And instead of replacing the entire word, they just kind of did this, and got "design proponents" with the "c" in front and the "ists" in the back from the original word.

NICK MATZKE: So the correct term for this transitional form is "Cdesign proponentsists." And everyone now refers to this as the "missing link" between creationism and intelligent design. You've got the direct physical evidence there of a transitional fossil.

Okay, totally funny in a geeky way. (Said as I push my glasses back up my nose and snort.)

Totally off topic, but just to let you know that it's not all work, work, work with me on things like ID destruction: I did have a bit of fun with a post on DU today: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6078605&mesg_id=6081283
I couldn't help myself.