In reviewing the various intelligent design wikis when researching for the Phillip Johnson quote it is apparent that the fact that the ID perps at the Discovery Institute have only used ID as bait to attract the creationist rubes for over 22 years is not clearly stated. The IDiotic Biblical creationists have been running a bait and switch scam on themselves and their creationist supporters for decades. The ID perps have been running the teach ID scam since the beginning of the ID scam unit at the Discovery Institute in the mid 1990s. They sell the rubes with claims that ID can be taught in the public schools, but all the rubes ever get is an obfuscation and denial switch scam that the ID perps tell them has nothing to do with intelligent design. The wikis do have the evidence that the ID perps were selling the teach ID scam from the start of the ID scam unit at the Discovery Institute, but for some reason they do not mention that in every case where the creationist rubes have wanted to teach the ID science, the bait and switch has gone down, and the rubes never get any ID science to teach. This has happened 100% of the time. The ID perps even tried to run the bait and switch on the Dover rubes, but it failed, and the rubes tried to teach the junk anyway.
Historical context of the creationist strategy to teach intelligent design in the public schools:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_intelligent_designMy comments on the timeline:
http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Cvbdsj0%24mgkb%241%40dont-email.me%3EJohnson's capitulation after attending everyday of testimony of Kitzmiller indicates that the "scientists" involved in running the teach ID Wedge bait and switch scam probably had known that they did not have the ID science to teach in the public schools, and that the understanding likely had a major influence on them for the ID perps to resort to the strategy of running the bait and switch instead of teach ID as they had planned in order to achieve their Wedge goals. Getting the rubes to bend over for the obfuscation and denial switch scam seems to be the only way forward to support their Wedge strategy. They had made getting ID taught in the public schools part of their Wedge strategy, but they have only used ID as bait. Whenever any creationists rubes have taken the bait the ID perps tell them not to teach the ID science, but teach their obfuscation and denial switch scam instead. It should also be noted that the ID perps tell the rubes that the switch scam has nothing to do with ID even though it is mostly just the same obfuscation and denial that the scientific creationists would indulge in to try to make their alternative look like it might be viable. It is basically the junk that the Supreme court had already ruled as not being valid scientific support for the creationist alternative. Just because science currently does not have all the answers doesn't mean that the creationist alternative has any validity. This is why the ID perps warn the rubes that creationism nor ID can be mentioned when they teach the obfuscation and denial switch scam. They have to confuse the kids with obfuscation and denial, but they can't tell them why they are doing it or it will be considered to be as unconstitutional as when the scientific creationists tried to do that. It is just obfuscation and denial geared to fool the students into thinking something is wrong with what they are being taught. Most of the creationists rubes have dropped the issue instead of bend over for the switch scam because most of the creationist rubes do not want to teach the kids enough science for them to understand what they need to deny if they cannot tell them the religious reason for the denial.
Several of the original ID perps (Kenyon, Thaxton, Meyer and Behe) had been involved in Of Pandas and People before the ID scam unit was formed at the Discovery Institute, and there is no doubt that, that book was written as a public school creationist textbook. Kenyon was one of the main authors, Thaxton was the editor, Meyer wrote the teachers notes, and Behe admitted to writing some of the second edition, but was not credited. The publishers had listed the book under Creation Science in their sales material, and the change from creationism to intelligent design after the Supreme court decision was noted in the Kitzmiller trial. Kenyon understood that they did not have any valid creation science in Pandas because he wrote some of the legal briefs for the Supreme court case in support of creation science, and there is no reason why he would have left the best "science" out of those briefs. The creationists associated with Of Pandas and People were fully aware that they did not have to change the name of what they were selling if it was actually science. The Supreme court had ruled that if the creation scientists ever did produce any valid science that it could be taught in the public schools, but what they had at that time was not considered to be valid science. The More Lawyers pushed this point in Kitzmiller. Even if the ID scam was creationism under another name it could be taught in the public schools as long as it was real science. The creationist defendants requested that the Judge rule on whether ID was science or not because of the Supreme Court decision.
Wiki on the book Of Pandas and People:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Pandas_and_PeopleThe DeWolf et al. 1999 booklet supporting the Wedge goal of teaching ID in the public schools stated that Of Pandas and People could be used to teach ID in the public schools. All the authors of that guide booklet were fellows of the Discovery Institute with Meyer being director of the ID scam unit. The Discovery Institute fellows were also involved in writing the 2000 Utah Law Review article supporting teaching intelligent design in the public schools, and Phillip Johnson was supposed to have written the "Santorum amendment" to the 2001-2002 No Child Left Behind legislation (it was included in the conference report and not the bill) to support teaching intelligent design in the public schools. Getting ID taught in the public schools was part of the 5 year plan outlined in the Wedge document. There is no doubt that the ID perps have been selling the teach ID scam. None of the claims about teaching ID in the public schools was ever retracted by the ID perps, and they have even added to it after their defeat in Dover.
There was a Chronicle Colloquy discussion in 2001 when Ohio announced it's intention to teach ID in the public schools. I and some other TO regulars participated. DeWolf, Richards, and Luskin (Luskin was not yet an employee of the Discovery Institute, but supported teaching intelligent design in the public schools, and had participated in the creation of IDEA student clubs) participated, and none of them indicated that the bait and switch was going to go down on the Ohio rubes. Richards was program director at the time that the Wedge document was leaked, and his claim then was that it was no big deal because the Wedge mission statement was the same as the one they had up on the Discovery Institute web site at the time. It was the program that Richards was directing. It was Richards' comment about the Wedge document that he made when the Wedge document was exposed in 1999 that made me look up the ID perp's mission statement, and it was the same as the one in the Wedge document.
We are not privy to most of the internal communications between ID perps, but Wells' report on the Ohio bait and switch was put up on an Ohio creationist web site that claimed that they had permission to have it there. One of the first things Wells does in that report is to tell the other ID perps that they have decided to start running the bait and switch, and would not be giving the rubes any ID science to teach. This is probably the first admission that the Discovery Institute would not be supporting teaching the junk in the public schools. Up until this time they were in support of the Wedge strategy to get ID taught in the public schools.
Even though they had obviously had a change of heart in Ohio, in terms of teaching ID in the public schools, they continued to claim that ID could be taught in the public schools, but they were only using ID as bait. In every case where a legislator or school board wanted to teach ID in the public schools the ID perps would run the bait and switch on the rubes and tell them to bend over for their obfuscation and denial switch scam. It is obvious that they did not want to test ID in the courts. Anyone could download a pdf copy of the 1999 DeWolf et al booklet from one of their teach the controversy Discovery Institute web pages until Dover hit the fan and the bait and switch failed for the first time. I recall the ID perps claiming that their "not required to be taught" qualification started to be used after the bait and switch started to go down, but I recall that it only was put into their education policy after Dover hit the fan and the bait and switch had failed. The Dover creationists had not rolled over for the switch scam and had tried to teach ID anyway. Kitzmiller was due to the failure of the bait and switch scam that the ID perps had been running since March 2002. Before Dover the bait and switch had gone down on all creationist rube school boards and legislators that had wanted to teach ID in the public schools. Most of the victims dropped the issue when the bait and switch went down on them, and at that time only Ohio had bent over for the switch scam. The ID perps were claiming that many of the victims were still considering adopting the obfuscation and denial switch scam.
Dover made them put up an education policy on their web site that claimed that ID was a scientific theory that could be taught in the public schools, but that the Discovery Institute did not want it to be "required" to be taught. This education policy became part of their teach ID scam propaganda that they put out after their loss in Dover (on page 15)
https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/The post Dover education policy was up on the Discovery Institute web site until 2013 (can still be found on page 15 of their current teach ID scam propaganda linked to above) but they modified the policy when both Louisiana and Texas tried to use the switch scam to teach ID in their public schools. Both states were not requiring ID to be taught, but the ID perps ran the bait and switch on the rubes again, and the Discovery Institute deleted the paragraph about teaching ID from their education policy, but left the rest of the policy intact.
Deleted paragraph:
QUOTE:
Although Discovery Institute does not advocate requiring
the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, it
does believe there is nothing unconstitutional about
voluntarily discussing the scientific theory of design in
the classroom. In addition, the Institute opposes efforts
to persecute individual teachers who may wish to discuss
the scientific debate over design in an objective and
pedagogically appropriate manner
END QUOTE:
They still promote teaching intelligent design in the public schools in their post Dover propaganda and even include the old intact education policy in it. The main point is that ID has only been used as bait for over 20 years. Even though the ID perps continue to claim that ID can be taught in the public schools the bait and switch goes down every single time anyone has tried to teach it whether they have "required" it to be taught or not.
The Thomas More Lawyer defending the Dover rubes understood that the bait and switch had been going down, but for some stupid reason he was still willing to support teaching the junk in the public schools. The More Lawyer called the bait and switch a strategy, but it isn't an honest political strategy. The bait and switch is considered to be immoral even in "free speech" politics, and if the ID perps had been selling TV sets instead of a religious political ploy they would be considered to be criminals. It is not illegal to run a political or religious bait and switch scam, and the ID perps have been running such a scam on their creationist support base for over 22 years. There are no legitimate excuses for what the ID perps have been doing. It isn't like political cases such as when George H. W. Bush claimed no new taxes, but after he was elected he supported new taxes. In that case he was accused of running a political bait and switch scam, but he could have just changed his mind once he became president and had to deal with reality. In the case of what the Discovery Institute has been doing, they have continued to claim to be able to teach the junk after each case where they have run the bait and switch. They have never retracted their teach ID scam propaganda, and the bait and switch has gone down in every instance where creationist rubes have wanted to teach the junk in our public schools for over 22 years. The More lawyer understood that they had run the bait and switch multiple times before Dover.
http://ncse.com/news/2005/10/discovery-institute-thomas-more-law-center-squabble-aei-foru-00704When the Discovery Institute rep tried to lie about the Discovery Institute running the teach ID scam the More Lawyer pulled out the 1999 DeWolf et al. guide book and quoted the conclusions that included advocating teaching ID in the public schools and using Of Pandas and People to do it. He also noted that he knew that the ID perps had been running the bait and switch for several years naming the first instance in Ohio, specifically.
QUOTE:
Now, Stephen Meyer, you know, wanted his attorney there, we said because he was an officer of the Discovery Institute, he certainly could have his attorney there. But the other experts wanted to have attorneys, that they were going to consult with, as objections were made, and not with us. And no other expert that was in the Dover case, and I'm talking about the plaintiffs, had any attorney representing them.
So that caused us some concern about exactly where was the heart of the Discovery Institute. Was it really something of a tactical decision, was it this strategy that they've been using, in I guess Ohio and other places, where they've pushed school boards to go in with intelligent design, and as soon as there's a controversy, they back off with a compromise. And I think what was victimized by this strategy was the Dover school board, because we could not present the expert testimony we thought we could present
END QUOTE:
The More lawyer obviously understood that the ID perps were selling the rubes the teach ID scam, but were making them bend over for an obfuscation and denial switch scam that the ID perps claimed had nothing to do with ID. The ID perps continue to run the bait and switch scam to this day. They have never announced a retraction of any of their teach ID scam stupidity, and even doubled down after Dover claiming in their post Dover teach ID scam propaganda that the Dover decision was wrong, that the scientific theory of ID existed to teach, and that it was still legal to teach ID outside of Dover. The fact is that no creationist rubes will ever get any ID science to teach in the public schools because it does not exist.
The ID perps at the Discovery Institute have been perpetrating a dishonest bait and switch scam on the ignorant and incompetent creationist rubes for over 22 years. They are still telling the creationist rubes that it is still legal to teach ID outside of Dover even after Kitzmiller demonstrated that they had nothing worth teaching, and every single time that some creationist rubes take them up on the stupidity, they run the bait and switch and tell them not to teach the junk, but to teach their obfuscation and denial switch scam instead.
Working links:
WayBack archive of Colloquy discussion: The Discovery Institute participated at the beginning but faded out quickly. As the discussion progressed it was apparent that none of the creationists supporting teaching ID in the public schools as scientific knew what would be taught, nor did they know what the ID science was. What the IDiots mostly put up was just the usual creationist obfuscation and denial that became the switch scam.
https://web.archive.org/web/20021119135500/http:/chronicle.com/colloquy/2001/design/re4.htm
This is a WayBack archive of a 2004 Teach the Controversy web page on the Discovery Institute web site that you could click on the link provided and download a pdf of the DeWolf et al., 1999 booklet promoting the Wedge strategy of teaching intelligent design in the public schools. At the time that the booklet was written teaching ID was an integral part of the Teach the Controversy Wedge strategy. After they started running the bait and switch scam the ID perps continued to call the switch scam "Teach the Controversy" but they would tell the rubes that the switch scam had nothing to do with ID. The Ohio model lesson plan demonstrated that the switch scam was just the usual creationist obfuscation and denial that did not mention ID nor creationism. It was basically the same obfuscation and denial that the Scientific creationists had used to support teaching creationism in the public schools, but the Ohio rubes could not mention the religious reason for the denial.
https://web.archive.org/web/20021230161955/http:/www.discovery.org:80/viewDB/index.php3?program=CRSC&command=view&id=58
The Web link was archived in 2004. I have also used one archived in 2005 that links to the same page, but the page was deleted after Kitzmiller.
ARN still has the booklet available:
http://arn.org/docs/dewolf/guidebook.htmThis is an existing Discovery Institute web page where they have a link to a copy of the 2000 Utah law review article written by the ID perps supporting teaching ID in the public schools along with several other legal articles.
https://www.discovery.org/a/2110/Their link seems to be broken, but google has a working link as:
http://dewolflaw.net/utah.pdfAt the time the Utah law review article was published (at the turn of the century) teaching ID in the public schools was still part of the Teach the Controversy Wedge strategy. The start of the bait and switch scam was still a couple years in the future. At the turn of the century getting ID taught in the public schools was the Discovery Institute's primary objective for using what they claimed was their scientific theory of intelligent design. Teaching ID was supposed to get the tip of the Wedge in where it could do some good. Phillip Johnson had made teaching ID in the public schools part of the Wedge strategy.
Phillip Johnson is claimed to have written the draft of the Santorum amendment to support the Wedge strategy of teaching ID in the public schools. It was submitted by Senator Santorum as an amendment to the No Child Left Behind legislation (2001-2002), but only survived in a conference report and was not included in the legislation. Santorum supported the Wedge strategy of teaching intelligent design in the public schools, but he was likely not informed that the Discovery Institute ID perps had decided to start running a bait and switch scam instead of teach ID in the public schools in Ohio. The ID perps hailed the "Santorum amendment" as a great leap forward for their teach ID scam. It looks like the ID perps ran the bait and switch on Santorum when they ran it on the Ohio rubes.
http://www.arn.org/docs/ohio/washtimes_santorum031402.htmQUOTE:
"I hate your opinions, but I would die to defend your right to express
them." This famous quote by the 18th-century philosopher Voltaire
applies to the debate currently raging in Ohio. The Board of Education
is discussing whether to include alternate theories of evolution in the
classroom. Some board members however, are opposed to Voltaire's defense
of rational inquiry and intellectual tolerance. They are seeking to
prohibit different theories other than Darwinism, from being taught to
students. This threatens freedom of thought and academic excellence.
Today, the Board of Education will discuss a proposal to insert
"intelligent design" alongside evolution in the state's new teaching
standards.
END QUOTE:
QUOTE:
At the beginning of the year, President Bush signed into law the "No
Child Left Behind" bill. The new law includes a science education
provision where Congress states that "where topics are taught that may
generate controversy (such as biological evolution), the curriculum
should help students to understand the full range of scientific views
that exist." If the Education Board of Ohio does not include intelligent
design in the new teaching standards, many students will be denied a
first-rate science education. Many will be left behind.
Rick Santorum is a Republican member of the United States Senate from
Pennsylvania.
© 2002 News World Communications. All rights reserved. International
copyright secured.
File Date: 3.14.02
END QUOTE:
My guess is that ARN keeps the Santorum editorial up on their web site as support for teaching ID in the public schools, and they just hope that the rubes do not remember that the bait and switch went down on Ohio and Santorum right after he wrote it.
Santorum claims to be writing the editorial the day that the bait and switch went down on the Ohio board. He obviously had no idea that the bait and switch was going to start going down. Santorum fully expected the ID perps to provide the Ohio creationist rubes with the ID science that they had claimed existed to be taught. The saddest thing about Santorum, was that he initially supported the Dover effort to teach ID in the public schools as if he was clueless that the bait and switch had been going down for over 2 years by then. Santorum was eventually clued in and flip-flopped during his reelection campaign. His religious convictions were questioned by his republican opponents in the primaries due to changing his mind about teaching ID in the Pennsylvania public schools. Santorum was not reelected, and when he ran for President he no longer claimed to be an IDiot and instead claimed that he supported creationism.
Santorum Amendment links:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Santorum_Amendmenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design_in_politicsThis wiki has a section on the Santorum amendment.
Ohio was the first state that wanted to teach ID, and it was an important opportunity to advance the Wedge strategy. The Discovery Institute sent a team to Ohio, and Wells and Meyer presented the case for ID to the Ohio State Board of education. Wells' report on the event named Minnich and Dewolf as being part of the party, but news accounts of the time claimed that the Discovery Institute President and half a dozen staff members also attended to support Wells and Meyer. Wells presented the most important news in the report in the second paragraph where he announced the start of the bait and switch ID scam. After Ohio ID was only used as bait, and all that any group of creationist rubes have ever gotten out of the ID perps is the obfuscation and denial switch scam that they tell the rubes has nothing to do with ID.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110814145400/http:/www.creationists.org/archived-obsolete-pages/2002-03-11-OSBE-wells.html
QUOTE:
Steve Meyer and I (in consultation with others) had decided ahead of time that we would not push for including intelligent design (ID) in the state science standards, but would propose instead that the standards include language protecting teachers who choose to teach the controversy.
END QUOTE:
Teaching ID in the public schools had been made part of the Wedge strategy, and the ID perps had supported that strategy with their own published efforts, but when it came time to put up or shut up the ID perps decided to do neither and started running a bait and switch scam instead. Meyer was one of the authors of the DeWolf et al., 1999 guidebook and one of the chief cheerleaders for teaching the junk in the public schools, but he ran the first bait and switch on Ohio and has directed the bait and switch scam for over 2 decades (Meyer was director of the ID scam unit of the Discovery Institute when it was formed in the mid 1990's and continues as what they now call "Program Director"). The Discovery Institute has continued to sell the teach ID scam, to this day, but all any creationist rubes ever get from them is the obfuscation and denial switch scam.
The ID perps didn't just run the bait and switch on the Ohio State School Board and then Senator Santorum, but the ID Network had been busy in Ohio and some Ohio "Scientists" put out a press release where 52 of them claimed to have bought into the ID perp's teach ID scam, and were in support of teaching the scientific theory of intelligent design, and they cited the Santorum amendment to the No Child Left Behind legislation as support for their stupidity. As sad as it may seem they were late in collecting their signatures and made the press release a few days after the ID perps had run the bait and switch on the Ohio State school board. They were likely fully aware that the ID perps had run the bait and switch on them, but they put out the signatures of the rubes that had been fooled by the ID scam propaganda and hung them out to be labeled as IDiotic creationist rubes for posterity. To be fair to these "scientists" there were some (small minority) creationists posting on the ARN discussion group at the time that claimed that ID was still going to be taught in Ohio up until the model lesson plan was put out in 2003, and all mention of ID and the ID perps was removed from the initial drafts. This was likely due to the ID perps continued use of "teach the controversy" description for the switch scam that the ID perps were telling the rubes had changed to have nothing to do with ID. The bait and switch had been going down 100% of the time for over a year, but there were still some IDiotic creationist rubes that believed that ID was going to be taught in the public schools.
https://www.arn.org/docs2/news/52ohioscientists031902.htmCurrent web link to the Discovery Institute's post Dover ID scam propaganda:
https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/After their loss in Dover in their continued efforts to use ID as bait, the ID perps continue to claim that ID is a scientific theory, that the Dover decision was wrong, and in spite of their loss, that ID remains legal to teach in the public schools except in Dover. It is probably of interest to note that the post Dover teach ID scam initially claimed that the Kitzmiller decision was not legally binding outside of Dover in order to claim that it was still legal to teach ID some place else. This error was corrected in later editions to be limited to the middle federal court district of PA. For some reason they do not correct this error where they are trying to claim that it is still legal to teach the ID scam someplace else. It should also be noted that just because the decision was never appealed it still likely means that it is illegal to teach ID anywhere in the US. It is just that the same conclusion hasn't been settled in court somewhere else or through a broader appeal process. The ID perps have continued to run the bait and switch every single time the rubes take them up on teaching the junk because there is little doubt that any other court decision would be the same as Kitzmiller.
Page 14:
QUOTE
However, the decision in that case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area
School Board (M.D. Penn. 2005), was never appealed to
an appellate court. Beyond the actual parties to a lawsuit,
trial opinions such as Kitzmiller do not have the force of
law.
END QUOTE:
In a section before this quote appears the ID perps did correct their initial error of claiming that the ruling only applied to Dover by changing the wording to the middle federal court district instead of Dover.
ID seems to be required as bait in order to attract the rubes. It turned out that the rubes do not like the switch scam. They do not want to teach their kids enough science for them to understand what they have to deny when they cannot tell them the religious reason for why they need to deny the science. Most of the creationist rubes that have been victims of the bait and switch have dropped the issue instead of bend over for the switch scam. The ID Network quit ID and started COPE in order to sell the switch scam without having ID in the name of their organization (the ID perps were claiming that the switch scam had nothing to do with ID). The COPE effort failed. I do not recall a single instance where any group of creationists adopted the switch scam being sold to them by COPE, so after years of failure the IDiots at the ID Network returned and reactivated their ID scam web site. It looks like the ID perps at the Discovery Institute keep selling the ID scam as bait in order to attract the rubes so that they can keep trying to advance their Wedge strategy without exposing intelligent design to the courts. It seems to be the only way forward to realizing the theocracy that they wanted to recreate in the US.
http://intelligentdesignnetwork.org/about/In their history the ID Network admits to creating COPE. They had quit the ID scam in 2009 and their Web site remained dormant until they posted a notice that you could find them associated with COPE. After years of COPE failure they reactivated their ID Network web site.
The reason why the bait and switch had to continue is likely due to Wells and Meyer understanding that they were going to fail to convince the Ohio board that they had any science worth teaching. The ID perps know that they have never had the ID science to teach. One Ohio board member still wanted to teach ID after Meyer told them not to do it, and that board member wanted to change the definition of science that Ohio had been using in their education standards so that ID could be considered to be scientific. The creationists understood that ID was not science, but it obviously did not matter to them. That proposal was up on the Ohio State board of Education web site for the rest of the year, but was never acted on that I am aware of.
Original mission statement of the ID scam unit of the Discovery Institute:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980114111554/http://discovery.org/crsc/aboutcrsc.html
The Wedge document had the same mission statement:
https://ncse.ngo/wedge-documentIt should also be noted that getting ID taught in 10 states was one of the 5 year objectives listed in the Wedge document. The ID perps did everything to meet that goal and the "Santorum amendment" seemed to trigger a land slide of activity. I recall that within a few months of the first bait and switch in Ohio that the ID perps had to run the bait and switch on Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, and New Mexico. ID seemed to have reached some type of critical mass and a bunch of creationist rubes in various states wanted to teach the junk in their public schools. The ID perps used to keep a list of creationist rubes that had the bait and switch run on them that the ID perps claimed were still considering the switch scam. By Dover there were probably over 20 examples on that list, but only Ohio had bent over for the switch scam at that time.
A copy of the final draft of the Ohio Model Lesson plan is no longer accessible on the web. Pretty much everyone used the Ohio State Board of Education web link for the lesson plan, but when Ohio dropped that creationist policy they deleted that web link. The web link available in wiki is to a 2003 draft before the Wellsian lie about the lack of moths on tree trunks was removed, and it still had the creationist web links including ARN. After this draft came out the board had to be reminded that the switch scam had nothing to do with ID nor creationism.
http://www.ohioroundtable.org/resources/Analysis_Evolution.pdfI found a Texas site that had what they claim is a copy that has the 2004 changes made by the board, but it still has the Wellsian lie in the appendix. The web links have been deleted, and reference to the ID perps have been removed. As sad as it may be they removed Wells' Icons of evolution from among the references even though they had used that book to create the lesson plan. If I recall correctly, Denton's reference was left in the lesson plan, but it was to his 1985 book, and Denton had already quit the ID scam unit before the bait and switch had gone down on Ohio (He was no longer listed as a fellow when the bait and switch went down in March 2002). Denton only returned to support the ID scam after the IDiotic loss in Dover.
https://web.archive.org/web/20041018053234/https://www.texscience.org/files/critical-analysis-evolution.pdf
By Dover the Discovery Institute employed an ID perp whose job it was to make sure that the bait and switch went down. The ID perps never stopped selling the rubes the teach ID scam. Even after Dover they just doubled down on the stupidity and claimed that the Dover decision was wrong, that even though they had lost, and ID was found to be no science worth teaching to kids, that it was still legal to teach the junk in other places other than Dover. The last person whose job it was to run the bait and switch had left the Discovery Institute just before she ran the bait and switch on the Utah rubes in 2017, but it doesn't look like they refilled her position because I could not find her job title among Discovery Institute staff when West Virginia hit the fan. My guess is that it was deemed a waste of money since Utah was probably the first bait and switch since 2013 (Texas and Louisiana). The ID perps missed the latest West Virginia creationist legislation, and it was likely due to not having a person tracking the stupidity. The ID perps had to retroactively tell the West Virginia creationists that they did not support teaching intelligent design in the public schools. Luskin made that statement, and he is one of the authors of the post Dover propaganda claiming that it is still legal to teach ID in the public schools.
Utah 2017 bait and switch:
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/dear-utah-teach-about-the-scientific-controversy-over-evolution-not-about-intelligent-design/QUOTE:
Sarah Chaffee served as Program Officer in Education and Public Policy at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.
END QUOTE:
Chaffee only quotes from the modified Education policy, and does not refer to the post Dover teach ID scam propaganda that was current on the Science and Culture site in the same pull down menu with the education policy. The Utah creationist rubes dropped the issue instead of bending over for the switch scam.
This is the link from above for their current teach ID scam propaganda that was first published after their loss in Dover, and has been updated around every 3 years since then. Luskin and West are coauthors.
https://www.discovery.org/f/1453/Luskin running the bait and switch after the fact when the West Virginia legislator claimed that she had written the bill in order to allow teaching intelligent design in their public schools.
https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-intelligent-design-religion-teaching-e01560041051a061c65a83f4129e0993QUOTE:
The Seattle-based Center for Science and Culture, the leading organization advocating for intelligent design acceptance and research, is against public schools teaching the concept.
Instead, the organization pushes for public school policies “protecting teacher academic freedom to discuss the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution without getting into alternative theories like intelligent design,” Center Associate Director Casey Luskin said.
He said supporters’ “priority with intelligent design is to see it grow and develop as a science.”
“When it gets brought into public schools, that politicizes the issue, and that politicization leads to witch hunts and discrimination against pro-ID scientists and faculty in the academy,” he said.
The academic freedom approach, however, is “legal and helps greatly improve student learning.”
END QUOTE:
This is the bait and switch going down by Luskin who is one of the authors of the post Dover teach ID propaganda currently up at the ID scam web site. The West Virginia creationist rubes are obviously buying into the teach ID scam that the post Dover propaganda claims is still legal to teach except in Dover, but Luskin has no support for the rubes even though he is the one that sold them the junk. It also should be noted that they were not requiring ID to be taught. The West Virginia legislators had even left ID out of the wording of the final bill, but still intended for ID to be taught as one of the alternatives.
Kitzmiller wiki that has the Discovery Institute claiming that they tried to run the bait and switch on the Dover rubes before the creationist rubes implemented their teach ID scam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_DistrictQUOTE:
This story made the York newspapers, and Buckingham was telephoned by Discovery Institute staff attorney Seth Cooper, whose tasks included "communicating with legislators, school board members, teachers, parents and students" to "address the topic of ID in a scientifically and educationally responsible way" in public schools. He later stated that he made the call to "steer the Dover Board away from trying to include intelligent design in the classroom or from trying to insert creationism into its curriculum [sic]", an account Buckingham has disputed. Cooper sent the book and DVD of Icons of Evolution to Buckingham, who required the Dover High School science teachers to watch the DVD. They did not take up the opportunity to use it in their classes.
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By Dover the bait and switch had likely become routine. It had gone down on every single creationist school board and legislator that wanted to teach ID in the public schools for over 2 years, so Cooper messed up and did not follow up. He likely did not know how ignorant and incompetent the Dover creationists were. They did not like the switch scam so they decided to teach ID anyway, probably, because they did not know that the Discovery Institute was the creationist perpetrator selling the teach ID scam. If they had known that fact only a fool would not have backed down and bent over for the switch scam, or dropped the issue (the majority of creationist victims that have had the bait and switch run on them have dropped the issue instead of bend over for the switch scam). How incompetent does a creationist rube have to be to not understand that the game is over when the guys that sold you the scam tell you not to do it? The ID perps have been the major force keeping creationism out of the public schools for over two decades. IDiotic type creationists have never listened to the science side of the issue, but they do have second thoughts when the creationist ID perps that sold them the scam tell them not to do it.
We had a TO discussion about if what the ID perps had been doing since 2002 was a bait and switch scam back in 2014.
The ID perps sell the rubes the teach ID scam, but when they get a bite they only give the rubes the obfuscation and denial switch scam that they tell the rubes has nothing to do with ID.
https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/38nQm79NC94/m/VLf_vGDImnIJIn this thread Mark Isaak agreed that it was a bait and switch scam, and had to explain, as I did, why that was the case. Some posters on the science side of the issue argued counter definitions, but it was just the usual denial of reality solutions that they came up with that are usually used by creationist posters. Some of the IDiots were in denial of what had been going down even though they had all recently lived through a major bait and switch in 2013 on both Louisiana and Texas. Both states had taken the ID perps up on their "not required to be taught" ploy and had not required ID to be taught, but the bait and switch went down anyway. This made the ID perps delete the paragraph claiming that the ID science could be taught in the public schools from the education policy, but they did not retract the post Dover teach ID scam propaganda, and it included the intact education policy in it, so it was just a matter of time until the bait and switch went down on another group of rubes (it took over 3 years, but the bait and switch had to go down on the Utah rubes in 2017).
https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/38nQm79NC94/m/ovJWApFEXiIJI also put up a link where it had been called the bait and switch on The Panda's Thumb.
https://groups.google.com/g/talk.origins/c/38nQm79NC94/m/00GyMLoAhDcJMark Isaak's only qualification was that there wasn't much difference between what the rubes were sold and what they got. The usual creationist obfuscation and denial that constituted the switch scam had always been part of the ID scam. The ID perps were selling the "Teach the Controversy" poly and ID was part of the controversy. It is true that the ID perp's Top Six god-of-the-gaps denial best evidence for ID had all been used by the scientific creationists that came before them, but they were obviously selling the rubes on their name change to intelligent design from creationism, that is why they could not allow the creationists to mention intelligent design nor creationism if they implemented the obfuscation and denial switch scam. Most creationist rubes drop the issue instead of bend over for the switch scam because they do not want to teach their kids enough science for them to understand what they have to deny if they can't tell them the religious reason that they have to wallow in denial.
It should be noted that the ID perps updated the post Dover teach ID scam propaganda 3 times after this TO discussion and did not retract their claims about being able to teach the junk in the public schools. They have continued to use ID as bait, but that is all ID has ever been for over 22 years. The West Virginia creationist rubes are the latest group that took the bait (around 6 years after the Utah creationist rubes in 2017). There aren't very many creationist rubes left that are stupid and dishonest enough to try to teach the ID scam at this time.
If the West Virginia creationists rubes do try to teach the ID scam, and get caught by someone that objects and has legal standing, the ID scam will once again fail in federal court. No legitimate ID science has been attempted or produced since Dover, so there isn't much doubt about what the outcome will be.
Their post Dover teach ID scam propaganda will likely hurt them because it has caused some major bait and switch episodes because creationists have believed that propaganda. Louisiana passed their switch scam legislation in 2008, but their first attempt to implement the switch scam at the state level around 2009 was an attempt to teach ID in their public schools (They wanted to force ID supplements into biology textbooks. At that time they wanted the textbook publishers to write the pro ID supplements. In 2013 the Louisiana and Texas IDiotic creationist rubes had written their own textbook supplements that they wanted put into the textbooks.). The ID perps shut that down, and reminded the Louisiana creationist rubes that the switch scam had nothing to do with ID. In 2009 Florida became likely the biggest bait and switch event that the ID perps had ever had to deal with. 9 county school boards wanted to teach intelligent design, and legislation had been written to teach ID. The Discovery Institute had to send a team of ID perps (included Luskin who was one of the authors of the post Dover teach ID scam propaganda) to Florida to run the bait and switch on all the school boards and legislators. The Florida rubes dropped the issue instead of bend over for the switch scam, and the legislation did not make it out of committee. The bait and switch on Louisiana and Texas in 2013 made the ID perps modify their education policy, but they did not retract their post Dover teach ID scam propaganda. They have never retracted any of their teach ID scam junk. All their efforts to run the bait and switch and prevent ID from being taught in the public schools should work against them in West Virginia if any creationist rubes are dishonest and stupid enough to try to teach the junk.
The saddest thing is that the West Virginia rubes do not have a clue as to what to teach about ID. The ID perps have never put out a public school lesson plan, so no one knows what would be taught, how it would be taught, and what the students are expected to learn from any IDiotic lesson. The IDiotic Posters on TO understood that they do not want to teach the Top Six best evidences for ID in a straightforward and honest manner because the Top Six killed IDiocy on TO. It turned out that almost all the IDiots did not want to believe in the designer responsible for the top six god-of-the-gaps denial "best evidence for ID" because the designer that filled those gaps was not the Biblical designer. Any legitimate ID science would just be more science for the IDiotic Biblical creationists to deny. Nelson has known that, likely, from the beginning of his participation in the ID Wedge scam. That is probably why he has claimed that the ID science doesn't exist, and that the ID perps are just working on creating some. Nelson is YEC, and if Meyer had ever produced any legitimate science supporting designer design within the 25 million year period of the Cambrian explosion that occurred over half a billion years ago, Nelson would have likely quit the ID Wedge scam. Really, Meyer has always contended that 25 million years is not enough time for the diversification of animal phyla to have occurred by natural means, so some designer had to be working during that time period. When the Scientific Creationists were using the same argument the period had only been narrowed down to 45 million years, and they would use the argument just as the ID perps had used the argument, as an independent "fire and forget" bit of gap denial that creationists were supposed to just drool over and forget as they moved to the next bit of denial. The Top Six god-of-the-gaps denial were never supposed to be considered as to how they related to each other in the order in which they must have logically occurred in this universe. They all obviously did occur in this universe, but that order is not Biblical even for most old earth Biblical creationists.
As sad as reality can get most of the IDiotic creationist rubes do not want to teach any ID science that might be validated and become part of our understanding of nature. The West Virginia IDiots are YEC, and the majority of IDiotic creationists that support the ID scam have always been YEC. The ID perps are doing the creationist rubes a favor by telling them not to teach the junk. The ID perps have never presented a coherent alternative for how life evolved on this planet over billions of years because their alternative would not be Biblical. They have never tried to build anything worth thinking about using their best evidence for ID because they can't deal with where the evidence leads them. Most of the IDiots still supporting the creationist scam on TO when the Top Six came out quit supporting the ID scam because it turned out that they had never wanted the ID perps to produce any valid ID science. Any legitimate ID science would have just been more science to deny.
Ron Okimoto
The Discovery Institute's bait and switch scam