the looming Kansas case that the DI *really* wants to win
If DI loses the Kansas case - which is suddenly a lot shakier than they wanted it to be - then that's it. They're finished. (Finished in this context meaning "go underground, lick their wounds, slap a new coat of paint and a new name on creationism, and get their people back on school boards in a decade" but still.) As it is, they lost Behe as an example from the moment he admitted that his "standards" for science admit astrology.
Jones has done brilliantly in creating a readable, researched legal document, and despite the Institute's howling, it has come from a conservative justice picked by His Holiness Bush himself.
I do fear what I said yesterday, though. Having been rebuffed twice on attempts to take over science, they're going to go after history next, in the hopes of shattering the notion of church/state separation. Once that inconvenient hurdle is gone, they can sweep in anything they want.
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If DI loses the Kansas case - which is suddenly a lot shakier than they wanted it to be - then that's it. They're finished. (Finished in this context meaning "go underground, lick their wounds, slap a new coat of paint and a new name on creationism, and get their people back on school boards in a decade" but still.) As it is, they lost Behe as an example from the moment he admitted that his "standards" for science admit astrology.
Jones has done brilliantly in creating a readable, researched legal document, and despite the Institute's howling, it has come from a conservative justice picked by His Holiness Bush himself.
I do fear what I said yesterday, though. Having been rebuffed twice on attempts to take over science, they're going to go after history next, in the hopes of shattering the notion of church/state separation. Once that inconvenient hurdle is gone, they can sweep in anything they want.