[extropy-chat] Intelligent Design -- take *this*...

[gts]

This an excerpt of the 139 page court opinion found here:
http://www2.ncseweb.org/kvd/main_docs/kitzmiller_342.pdf

(IDM = Intelligent Design Movement)

"Dramatic evidence of ID’s religious nature and aspirations is found in  
what
is referred to as the “Wedge Document.” The Wedge Document, developed by  
the
Discovery Institute’s Center for Renewal of Science and Culture  
(hereinafter
“CRSC”), represents from an institutional standpoint, the IDM’s goals and
objectives, much as writings from the Institute for Creation Research did  
for the
earlier creation-science movement, as discussed in McLean. (11:26-28  
(Forrest));
McLean, 529 F. Supp. at 1255. The Wedge Document states in its “Five Year
Strategic Plan Summary” that the IDM’s goal is to replace science as  
currently
practiced with “theistic and Christian science.” (P-140 at 6). As posited  
in the
Wedge Document, the IDM’s “Governing Goals” are to “defeat scientific
materialism and its destructive moral, cultural, and political legacies”  
and “to
replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that  
nature and
human beings are created by God.” Id. at 4. The CSRC expressly announces,  
in
the Wedge Document, a program of Christian apologetics to promote ID. A
careful review of the Wedge Document’s goals and language throughout the
document reveals cultural and religious goals, as opposed to scientific  
ones.
(11:26-48 (Forrest); P-140). ID aspires to change the ground rules of  
science to
make room for religion, specifically, beliefs consonant with a particular  
version of
Christianity."

-gts