Marcus Ross has written a review entitled, "Confusion over Intelligent Design and Young-Earth Creationism"(PDF). It's a real publication for the Journal of Geoscience Education, I'm so excited, it has charts and graphs and a table and everything.

It's also a total blast to read, as he creates a taxonomy of bullshit. I'm not being facetious, it's actually quite helpful. However I'll point out one major inaccuracy. He attempts to claim that ID is not creationism because it is based on science and is thus different from Young Earth Creationism (YEC). This has been proven false. When you show up, in Federal court, and say you're not creationists, then someone shows your "textbook" of Pandas and People is just a creationist textbook that you did a find-and-replace of "creationism" for "intelligent design", you're full of shit.

Again this is the deceptive element which Judge Jones pointed out famously in Dover v. Kitzmiller. There is no doubt about it, the objective is the teaching of creationism, and the "Intelligent Design Science" is a farce designed to avoid failing the Lemon test. They operate the same as creationists, they make the same arguments, they use the same textbooks (with some pretty simple editing), they've been called liars by a federal judge for saying they're not creationists, and just like creationists they have no empirical evidence for their beliefs.

Labels: Evolution denialism, Marcus Ross