What degree does that dude from Nigeria have?
Ha!! I never asked about these ass clowns.
I know all about the Discovery Institute, how their "statement" is a massive logical error, how the DI conned some of the people who signed this thing by not telling them that they were going to use it to sell medieval thinking, and how it was apparently written so vaguely that scientists could agree with it without agreeing with the Genesis crap or "I"D creationism which is has been used to promote.
In fact, given the way it's written, even the strongest defender of science and evolution and Darwinism could sign it in good conscience (because no one believes that natural selection is the only process responsible for life's diversity, and every scientist desires the careful examination of evidence, which is why we know, for example, that the flood in Genesis, taken as actual history, if a pathetic joke, because we carefully examined the evidence. Something creationists never do.) Such a scientist could sign that statement in good conscience, that is, if he were unaware of the lying, filthy bastards at DI and the evil plans which they have to wedge religious nonsense into science classes and poison the minds of children with their "thinking."
The list is lousy with fundies, Moonies and other religious kooks. It's being used by an evil organization, the Discovery Institute, who lie about what it is and what it means, in order to con unsuspecting people into thinking that there's an actual controversy over the legitimacy of evolutionary biology. Given some of the blinkeringly stupid comments on FR on these crevo threads, they have many co-conspirators in perpetuating this lie.
The purposes for which it's put is hardly convincing as a statement of science.