Bruce Chapman, president of the Discovery Institute in Seattle, has rightly corrected Bob Butler’s recent article about my film in which Mr. Butler wrote, “In Kansas, Texas and other states, ideologues work to elect school board members willing to introduce it (intelligent design) into the high school science curriculum.”
But let’s be clear. That’s Mr. Butler’s writing, not a quote from me. I am well aware that intelligent-design supporters are now very cautious. They have to be, after the Republican Bush-appointed judge in Dover, Pa., ruled last fall that intelligent design was not science.
Thus I applaud Mr. Chapman’s efforts to point this out. He is to be commended for making sure everyone knows that intelligent design should not be introduced into science classrooms.
Randy Olson
Los Angeles
Editor’s note: Olson is the writer and director of “Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus.”
Exactly where did Chapman point that out? I again ask how can the person who runs the Discovery Institute, a self-described support group of intelligent design, say it is not science. He has built a company around the idea that it IS science. Please, everyone interested in this, do your homework and read about the Discovery Institute. Just type in Discovery Institute or Bruce Chapman in a web search and read what comes up. Chapman is the money behind ID..
Posted by: big dreamer | August 03, 2006 at 07:54 AM