[Southack]

It bespeaks the inferiority complex of Evolutionists that they must resort to attempts to link scientific Intelligent Design with religious Creationism.

Mass email your entire department with such fluff?!

Get a new job.

[Locomotive Breath]

You’re not fooling anyone.

[Coyoteman]

It bespeaks the inferiority complex of Evolutionists that they must resort to attempts to link scientific Intelligent Design with religious Creationism.

Here is a link to a web thread which is pertinent:

The Evolution of the Discovery Institute's Website Rhetoric

Over the last 11 years, the Discovery Institute (DI) has been diligently scrubbing their website of any embarrassing hints about what their true motivation has been for opposing evolution and replacing it with "intelligent design." But thanks to the Wayback Machine, we can still see the confident, brash proclamations of the earlier DI in all their glory.

http://forum.darwincentral.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8077

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“It bespeaks the inferiority complex of Evolutionists that they must resort to attempts to link scientific Intelligent Design with religious Creationism.”

I don’t think if I would use the words “inferiority complex”, but I agree with your basic premise that religious creationism and intelligent design are not synonymous. It’s a very important distinction. Most people, in my opinion, will not balk at the concept that there is a reason all things exist. Consistent with agnosticism they may say that they have no idea what the details of that ‘reason’ are, but they will nonetheless not reject the concept that there is a reason for our existence. That, to me, is a start, and very, very different than outright atheism which is somewhat ‘faith based’ in and of itself. The concept of an ever changing dynamic unfolding universe created by God is consistent with both evolutionary theory and intelligent design. Anyway, you make an outstanding point.

[curiosity]

they must resort to attempts to link scientific Intelligent Design with religious Creationism.

The Discovery Institute already did that for them; their ID textbook is just a creationist textbook that merely replaced the words like "creation," "creator", and "God" with "design" and "designer."

[RightWhale]

scientific Intelligent Design

When scientists say there is a 20% chance of finding an extraterrestrial civilization in the next 20 years, they are not acting as scientists.

[Non-Sequitur]

It bespeaks the inferiority complex of Evolutionists that they must resort to attempts to link scientific Intelligent Design with religious Creationism.

Not hard at all to do.

[LibertarianSchmoe]

It bespeaks the inferiority complex of Evolutionists that they must resort to attempts to link scientific Intelligent Design with religious Creationism.

It bespeaks the dishonesty of creationists that they must resort to lying in attempts to cover up the link between unscientific ID and creationism.