Lost Cause, Lost Opportunity

The prospects don't look good for the Dover case, although predictions are not possible
Analysis: 'Intelligent design' case to undergo 2-pronged test
Sunday, October 02, 2005
By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In the parlance of the sports world, defense attorneys in the federal "intelligent design" trial will have to come from behind when testimony resumes this week.

Watching the Dover Trial any critic of Darwin must be frustrated at the probable lost opportunity to really deal with Darwinism, as the Darwin debate slid into the egregious issue of intelligent design.

Philip Johnson's ironic title Darwin on Trial has turned into ID on trial because of the obsessive injection of the religious issue into what should be the critique of Darwin's theory, and the way it is used to control culture and thought.

At this rate, after the bungling and wrongheded effort to put the useless Of Pandas and People into the classroom the case will likely fail, go to a higher court, fail again, and leave Darwinists even more entrenched than before.
We could have had a turning point in the public awareness of the way Darwinian natural selection is a bad theory, an ideological weapon, and generally a piece of bad science. Instead by obsessive overreaching with the ID argumentation Darwin critics will be framed as religious idiots all, and the Darwin opposition won't even be challenged on the core issues long standing since year one in 1859.

What the public needs is a class action lawsuit against this massive deception by scientists promoting this bad theory.
No substitute need be offered, and ID should never get within a mile of the effort.

Herbert Spencer, despite his other theoretical sins, had one good idea: the question of evolution resembled the Kantian phenomenon of the noumenon, unknowability.
A general awareness of such a point might allow people to defend themselves against pretenders here, each with their agenda.

We all know why they want to brainwash kids in Darwin's theory, and why they need to call it science:

It's the economy stupid.