Forty states? The monopolists can see their monopoly crumbling. No wonder the panic.
Indeed. Phillip Johnson, Boalt Hall (Berkeley) Law Professor Emeritus, an ardent champion of ID, conceived of this strategy in the early 1990s, calling it "the wedge." He and a handful of other brilliant men and women including Dr. William Dembski, have endured unceasing hostility, resistance, and scorn over the years from the Darwinists as they have patiently and methodically driven "the wedge" through the heart of the materialist beast.
The Darwinists are losing because ID meets them and beats them on their own terms at the point at which Darwinism is weakest and most vulnerable--the issue of origins.