The Seattle Times (hometown newspaper for the Discovery Institute) reports that things are not well after Dover.
"Dover is a disaster in a sense, as a public-relations matter," said Bruce Chapman, a former Seattle city councilman and founder of the Discovery Institute, the country's primary supporter of intelligent design. "It has given a rhetorical weapon to the Darwinists to say a judge has settled this," he said.
The Times writer, David Postman, reveals that even staunch conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh have joined in.
"Let's make no mistake," Limbaugh said on his radio show. "The people pushing intelligent design believe in the biblical version of creation. Intelligent design is a way, I think, to sneak it into the curriculum and make it less offensive to the liberals."
Probably the most stinging critique came from Paul Chesser, of the John Locke Foundation, who remarked:
"Why do Christians wage combat over taking Christ out of Christmas but employ weak dodge-and-parry tactics when educating their kids about life's beginnings?" Chesser wrote in a column headlined "Cowering Christians."
Ouch.
Hat tip to Marilyn Savitt-Kring.
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