At one point, an attorney for the defense asked her whether she knew that that document was intended to raise money, that it was part of a fundraising plea. Forrest didn't know.It wasn't just a piece of overheated fundraising copy. That text was lifted whole from the Discovery Institute's (CRSC) About page, as it existed for the first two years of the CRSC's existence (which is still available at The Wayback Machine)...
THE proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built. Its influence can be detected in most, if not all, of the West's greatest achievements, including representative democracy, human rights, free enterprise, and progress in the arts and sciences.Yet a little over a century ago, this cardinal idea came under wholesale attack by intellectuals drawing on the discoveries of modern science. Debunking the traditional conceptions of both God and man, thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud portrayed human beings not as eternal and accountable beings, but as animals or machines who inhabited a universe ruled by chance and whose behavior and very thoughts were dictated by the unbending forces of biology, chemistry, and environment. This materialistic conception of reality eventually infected virtually every area of our culture, from politics and economics to literature and music.
The cultural consequences of this triumph of materialism were devastating. ... etc. etc. yadda yadda yadda
Plaintiff's witness: "Intelligent Design is based on the Gospel of St. John"
Dover board attorney: "No it's only a scam to raise money"
Just who are the anti-Christians again?