But West says not one person who testified before the board advocated creationism, Intelligent Design theory, or including religion in biology textbooks.
Care to say a few words about what the Discovery Institute really advocates?
Glad to. Here's a clear statement from the Discovery Institute from 1998, back when they were more up-front about their agenda. (They've since removed the embarrassing S-word):
Life After Materialism
For more than a century, science attempted to explain all human behaviour as the subrational product of unbending chemical, genetic, or environmental forces. The spiritual side of human nature was ignored, if not denied outright.
This rigid scientific materialism infected all other areas of human knowledge, laying the foundations for much of modern psychology, sociology, economics, and political science. Yet today new developments in biology, physics, and artificial intelligence are raising serious doubts about scientific materialism and re-opening the case for the supernatural.
What do these exciting developments mean for the social sciences that were built upon the foundation of materialism? This project brings together leading scholars from the natural sciences and those from the humanities and social sciences in order to explore what the demise of materialism means for reviving the various disciplines.
If I were a scientist, I'd love to be able to bring in the supernatural. It would make it so much easier to explain why my experiments always fail: "One of those darn demons kept bumping the spectroscope, causing the results to look as if my theory is wrong. Because it was evil spirits who messed up my experiment (once again), this in no way hurts my theory. Please give me more funding."