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On 8/28/24 18:16, RonO wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_E._Johnson
> 
> Earlier this month I noted that someone had remove the Johnson 
> capitulation quote from the Johnson wiki.  There seems to be no valid 
> reason for removing the quote, and Athel claimed that he had emailed the 
> editor that made the edit to see what was going on.  I guess nothing has 
> come of the request.
> 
> The quote actually brings closure to the entire wiki entry of which a 
> major part is about Johnson's participation in the intelligent design 
> creationist scam.
> 
> There is absolutely no doubt that Phillip Johnson wanted ID taught in 
> the public schools.  He had made it part of his Wedge strategy.  It was 
> one of the 5 years goals listed in the Wedge document, but 20/20 
> hindsight indicates that Johnson never fully understood the science, and 
> did not understand that the ID perps never had any legitimate ID science 
> worth teaching in the public schools.
> 
> The Phillip Johnson wiki has the claim that Johnson did not understand 
> scientific reasoning "In 1993 the ASA's Perspectives on Science and 
> Christian Faith published a review of Darwin on Trial by Nancey Murphy, 
> an associate professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological 
> Seminary, who described Johnson's arguments as "dogmatic and 
> unconvincing", primarily because "he does not adequately understand 
> scientific reasoning.""  Johnson had been convinced by the other ID 
> perps that the ID science existed, and could be taught in the public 
> schools.
> 
> Johnson got others involved in the ID scam.  Most notably then Senator 
> Santorum.  Johnson supposedly wrote the draft of the IDiotic "amendment" 
> to the no child left behind legislation that was submitted by Santorum 
> and ended up in the appendix of that legislation.  Both Santorum and 
> Johnson claimed that the inclusion of the "amendment" supported teaching 
> intelligent design in the public schools.
> 
> By 2002 most of the other ID perps at the Discovery Institute likely 
> understood that they had nothing worth teaching as ID science in the 
> public schools, so when Ohio hit the fan and the ID perps were invited 
> to give their dog and pony show to the Ohio State School board the ID 
> perps decided to start running a bait and switch scam where they would 
> just use ID as bait, but only give the rubes an obfuscation and denial 
> swtich scam that the ID perps would tell the creationist rubes had 
> nothing to do with ID.  It does not look like the ID perps bothered to 
> inform Santorum and Johnson of what they planned to do because both 
> Johnson and Santorum came out in support of teaching ID in the public 
> schools in Ohio before the bait and switch went down.
> 
> Johnson put up the Santorum editorial on his ARN blog as the bait and 
> switch was going down in Ohio.  There is no reason why Johnson would 
> hang Santorum, out to dry like that if he knew that the bait and switch 
> scam was going to start to go down, and no reason for Santorum to have 
> written the opinion piece if he knew that the bait and switch was going 
> down.
> 
> https://www.arn.org/docs/ohio/washtimes_santorum031402.htm
> 
> QUOTE:
> "I hate your opinions, but I would die to defend your right to express
> them." This famous quote by the 18th-century philosopher Voltaire
> applies to the debate currently raging in Ohio. The Board of Education
> is discussing whether to include alternate theories of evolution in the
> classroom. Some board members however, are opposed to Voltaire's defense
> of rational inquiry and intellectual tolerance. They are seeking to
> prohibit different theories other than Darwinism, from being taught to
> students. This threatens freedom of thought and academic excellence.
> 
> Today, the Board of Education will discuss a proposal to insert
> "intelligent design" alongside evolution in the state's new teaching
> standards.
> END QUOTE:
> 
> QUOTE:
> At the beginning of the year, President Bush signed into law the "No
> Child Left Behind" bill. The new law includes a science education
> provision where Congress states that "where topics are taught that may
> generate controversy (such as biological evolution), the curriculum
> should help students to understand the full range of scientific views
> that exist." If the Education Board of Ohio does not include intelligent
> design in the new teaching standards, many students will be denied a
> first-rate science education. Many will be left behind.
> 
> Rick Santorum is a Republican member of the United States Senate from
> Pennsylvania.
> 
> © 2002 News World Communications. All rights reserved. International
> copyright secured.
> File Date: 3.14.02
> END QUOTE:
> 
> So neither Santorum nor Johnson likely knew of the strategy shift for 
> the ID scam.  After Ohio 2002 the ID perps only used the teach ID scam 
> as bait, and never delivered any ID science to any creationist rubes 
> that wanted to teach it.
> 
> You could still download the teach ID scam booklet from a Discovery 
> Institute web site when Dover hit the fan, but the bait and switch had 
> gone down in every case for the previous 3 years after Ohio.
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20040921022045/http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=58
> 
> QUOTE:
> 9. Conclusion
>       Local school boards and state education officials are frequently 
> pressured to avoid teaching the controversy regarding biological 
> origins. Indeed, many groups, such as the National Academy of Sciences, 
> go so far as to deny the existence of any genuine scientific controversy 
> about the issue.(162) Nevertheless, teachers should be reassured that 
> they have the right to expose their students to the problems as well as 
> the appeal of Darwinian theory. Moreover, as the previous discussion 
> demonstrates, school boards have the authority to permit, and even 
> encourage, teaching about design theory as an alternative to Darwinian 
> evolution--and this includes the use of textbooks such as Of Pandas and 
> People that present evidence for the theory of intelligent design.
> 
>       The controlling legal authority, the Supreme Court's decision in 
> Edwards v. Aguillard, explicitly permits the inclusion of alternatives 
> to Darwinian evolution so long as those alternatives are based on 
> scientific evidence and not motivated by strictly religious concerns. 
> Since design theory is based on scientific evidence rather than 
> religious assumptions, it clearly meets this test. Including discussions 
> of design in the science curriculum thus serves an important goal of 
> making education inclusive, rather than exclusionary. In addition, it 
> provides students with an important demonstration of the best way for 
> them as future scientists and citizens to resolve scientific 
> controversies--by a careful and fair-minded examination of the evidence.
> END QUOTE:
> 
> For some reason even though the bait and switch had gone down in every 
> instance for 3 years both Johnson and then Senator Santorum supported 
> the Dover School boards efforts to teach ID in the Dover public schools 
> in 2005.  Santorum was eventually clued in and had to flip flop on the 
> issue during his campaign for reelection.  As sad as it may seem some of 
> his republican opponents in the primary questioned his religious 
> convictions due changing his mind about teaching intelligent design in 
> the Pennsylvania public schools.  Santorum was not reelected, and when 
> he ran for president he no longer claimed to support intelligent design, 
> but instead claimed to support creationism.  It would take some willful 
> ignorance of what the ID perps were doing by running the bait and 
> switch, but the ID perps still called the switch scam "Teach the 
> Controversy" and if you look at the old propaganda produced by the 
> Discovery Institute teaching ID was part of the controversy that they 
> wanted to teach.  You can see ID included in the conclusion of the teach 
> ID booklet quoted above that the ID perps used to give out with the 
> video that they had produced as one of the goals listed in the Wedge 
> document.
> 
> I recall an interview at the Federal courthouse where Johnson claimed 
> that ID would prevail and be taught in the Dover public schools. Johnson 
> sat in the courtroom everyday of testimony, and changed his mind.
> 
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