Denying Reality

They don’t get it. At all. One would think that this kind of decision — coming from a Lutheran Republican judge appointed by George Bush (that’s George W. Bush, mind you), who, for six weeks watched exactly the kind of “Darwin[ists] on Trial” case that the IDists have been fantasizing about for years — would at least give the IDists a bit of pause. […] No, instead, all we have seen is vituperation (”activist”, “biased”, and, presumably worst, “Darwinist”) directed at a judge who on any other day would be considered a model conservative.

Nick Matzke has a really nice post on Panda’s Thumb titled “Boy, they *really* don’t get it“, which just sums up the entire Dover Trial and the spin by ID proponents. I think his points are really good, and I wish that people who think ID’s being unfairly suppressed would give it a read.

After going over why the judge ruled as he did, and how the outcome should be exactly the same in another trial with another judge, he concludes with some good comments on the whole ID theory.

Finally, the ID movement has no one but themselves to blame for this decision. If you don’t want damaging court decisions, don’t make the very first book systematically using the term “intelligent design” a 9th grade biology textbook!!! […] IDists have made much of comparing ID to the Big Bang model — but did Big Bang proponents kick off their model in a high school textbook? Did they go around the country mucking with kiddies science standards to promote their view? Did they ever lobby legislators? I don’t think so.

Well said Nick.