[Hac-announce] Creationists Right on Our Heels

[Thomas Platt]

Hi all,

I recently passed on a link to some of you to one of the derivative  
articles based upon this research:

Death and Science: The Existential Underpinnings of Belief in  
Intelligent Design and Discomfort with Evolution
http://tinyurl.com/4avbx4w

The link to the derivative article I sent was this one:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110330192201.htm

THIS morning I ran across the following rejoinder by the Institute  
for Creation Research to the corresponding article in Discovery News:
http://www.icr.org/article/6039/

By the way, at the bottom of the article at the link here, also by  
ICR, I found the following statement which I have reproduced below:
http://www.trueorigin.org/imp-269a.asp

"We believe God has raised up ICR to spearhead Biblical  
Christianity's defense against the godless dogma of evolutionary  
humanism. Only by showing the scientific bankruptcy of evolution,  
while exalting Christ and the Bible, will Christians be successful in  
"the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and  
every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,  
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of  
Christ" (II Corinthians10:4,5)."

Don't doubt that this sort of creationist stuff is all over the  
internet whenever you search for pertinent topics on evolution or  
geology.

This should drive home the fact that these matters were hardly  
settled in the public arena with the Dover trial, which we read about  
in the book, "Monkey Girl".


		GTom Platt