Jodi Wilgoren has a truly chilling account in Sunday's New York Times of the Discovery Institute, which is leading the current anti-evolution crusade. The piece includes discussion of the Institute's "Wedge Document", which proposes a twenty-year campaign to overthrow the scientific worldview. Discovery's PR firm is the one that pushed the Contract with America. Discovery's funding sources include the standard array of Clinton-haters such as Ahmanson, Scaife, but also the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Verizon Foundation. Naturally, Bill Bennett, who used to call himself a Kantian philosopher, has his pictures all over the walls.
No one can deny that Discovery is making rapid — well, it would be silly to say "rapid progress" in this context, so perhaps I should say "rapid regress." Sen. Dr. Frist's declaration in favor of teaching "intelligent design" as if it were a theory rather than a lunacy demonstrates that no one can hope to lead God's Own Party without kowtowing to the creationist mob.
I keep hoping that intelligent conservatives and libertarians will eventually notice, and be repulsed by, the interlocking directorates between the Bushite Party and the lunatic fringe that wants to repeal the Enlightenment. But it's hard to live on hope. Give me a little help here, fellas!
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