... Professor Behe remarkably and unmistakably claims that the plausibility of the argument for ID depends upon the extent to which one believes in the existence of God. [Italics in original opinion.] (P-718 at 705) (emphasis added). As no evidence in the record indicates that any other scientific propositions validity rests on belief in God, nor is the Court aware of any such scientific propositions, Professor Behes assertion constitutes substantial evidence that in his view, as is commensurate with other prominent ID leaders, ID is a religious and not a scientific proposition.That's stuff right out of the record of the trial. With an honest judge, ID never had a chance.Dramatic evidence of IDs religious nature and aspirations is found in what is referred to as the Wedge Document. The Wedge Document, developed by the Discovery Institutes Center for Renewal of Science and Culture (hereinafter CRSC), represents from an institutional standpoint, the IDMs goals and objectives, much as writings from the Institute for Creation Research did for the earlier creation-science movement, as discussed in McLean. (11:26-28 (Forrest)); McLean, 529 F. Supp. at 1255. The Wedge Document states in its Five Year Strategic Plan Summary that the IDMs goal is to replace science as currentlypracticed with theistic and Christian science. (P-140 at 6). As posited in the Wedge Document, the IDMs Governing Goals are to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural, and political legacies and to replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God. Id. at 4. The CSRC expressly announces, in the Wedge Document, a program of Christian apologetics to promote ID. A careful review of the Wedge Documents goals and language throughout the document reveals cultural and religious goals, as opposed to scientific ones. (11:26-48 (Forrest); P-140). ID aspires to change the ground rules of science to make room for religion, specifically, beliefs consonant with a particular version of Christianity.
Have you found anything in the testimony to substantiate claims or suspicions that ID is the instrument of a particular brand of Christiany trying to assert itself as solely capable of doing, and teaching, good science?