Thanks for the catch. I truly hate what the Christian right is attempting to do in education. There was a post a while back that the "Creationists" had been beaten back in Texas. Looks like "...they’re baaaack...."
Dembski is a senior fellow with the Seattle-based Discovery Institute that the Howard F. Ahmanson Foundation has generously funded; specifically, the Institute’s anti-evolution movement and other right-wing causes that advance their fundamentalist Christian outlook. Their goal is to, "unseat not just Darwinism but also Darwinism's cultural legacy." Although Dembski claims to be interested only in the scientific "evidence" against evolution, Dembski's appearance at Calvin College, a school the promotes his research in attacking Darwin and funded also by Ahmanson’s wife, is entitled "Seminars in Christian Scholarship".
Ahmanson himself was (he's now deceased) a bit of a religious nutcase and served for over two decades on the board of directors of the Chalcedon Foundation, Rousas J. Rushdoony's Reconstructionist think tank. Ahmanson's opposition to evolution remains part of a larger plan toward establishing a fundamentalist "Christian nation". They would just love to have the death penalty for: … adulterers
(look our conservative republicans!), homosexuals, witches, incorrigible children and those who spread "false" religions. They regard the teaching of evolution as part of a "war against Genesis."
Take a look here: <
http://www.txscience.org/files/discovery.htm>
However, my comment here is a bit different. There are a lot of postings on this site that link to the LA Times, and you have to register with them before you can read the article.
Today, I finally broke down and decided to register. I got more than halfway - then I read their privacy policy and decided not to. Basically they admit that they can take your name, address, telephone, email, and link that to what you read
(Jesus, this is sounding like something Herr Ashkroft would like to have!), and do with it as they wish. More, they reserve the right to pass that information on to all their "Affiliates", in which case, their privacy policy goes right out the window. See ‘ya!
I know I’m a bit of a paranoid on this, but given what the administration’s Nazi’s in the Pentagon are trying to do, I think I’m a bit justified. (For reference you can read Safire’s NY Times columns, “Privacy Invasion Curtailed”, 13 Feb 2003{btw, Safire was wrong}, and “Dear DARPA Diary” of 05 June 03.) I also have software on my computer that watches who gets my ‘clicks’ and, after looking at the hit list, I was astounded on who is getting my information. Now, I block it all.
Again, thanks for the heads-up.