Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisiana University philosophy professor testified in the case against Dover?s school board adding intelligent design to the science curriculum yesterday and today. School district attorneys had opposed the testimony, and possibly for good reason. She outlined the Discovery Institute?s ?wedge strategy? and presented a substantial smoking gun in early versions of the book Of Pandas and People to which Dover students are referred to in the paragraph teachers must read to their students. Using exhibits obtained from the book?s publishers Forrest showed how the words ?creation science? in early drafts had been routinely changed to ?intelligent design? ? presumably in reaction to the 1987 Supreme Court ruling that creationism not be taught in schools.
William Dembski, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, edited the book, but was released from his charge as an expert witness for the defense because of a lawyer conflict. So Dembski didn?t get ...
