Couple Sues Operators of Evolution Site -University of California-Berkeley

Larry Caldwell, a pro-Intelligent Design activist and attorney, has been active in bringing litigation in causes favoring the intelligent design movement. In the spring of 2005 he sued the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), and its director, Eugenie Scott, alleging that Scott and the center made false claims in a article she published in California Wild, the magazine of the California Academy of Sciences <1>. The suit claimed that Scott misstated that Larry Caldwell had proposed the names of two creationist books to his local school board and that Scott incorrectly stated the date of the Georgia evolution disclaimers and misspelled a party's last name. That suit was settled when the defendants agreed to publicly acknowledge and correct the errors <2>. This event was seized upon by the leading organization of the intelligent design movement, the Discovery Institute, to criticize their historical opponents, the NCSE <3>. The QSEA and the Discovery Institute have collaborated on a number of occasions on other projects related to the movement.