...uh oh... here it comes! Secure all hatches.
Thanks for the hint!
To call the board of the AAAS wise is really silly. Let's examine a few truths of life:
1. those who can do.
2. those who cannot, teach.
3. those who cannot teach, become bureaucrats.
And that is what these folk are, just bureaucrats. If they were any kind of good scientists they would be out there discovering things. Instead they are sitting at a desk looking to see what pencil to push. Also, if they were real scientists, they would welcome inquiry, they would welcome discussion, they would welcome developing analytical thinking in students. However, being just bureaucrats and not scientists, all they want to do is impose their will on others because they are scientists manque.
Jeez... they don't welcome it because those making the inquiry, those wanting to discuss and those allegedly doing the analytical thinking are motivated by religion and not science.
The downside to the AAAS's resolution is it plays right into the ID adherents plan because AAAS appears to be defending its position even though their position needs no defending. The AAAS's position does not need defending as it has stood the test of time. The AAAS is being drawn into a fight it doesn't want and has no reason to be in a fight.
Its like trying to answer the question "when did you stop beating your wife" when you've never even laid a hand on her. No matter what you say there is no good answer. And that is what the creationists want in order to create the appearance that the creationists have credibility. To even argue with a creationist gives the creationist credibility, unfortunately.