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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Is Jonathan Wells any type of ID perp to eulogize?
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For some reason there have been several articles about Jonathan Wells 
(died Sept 2024) up at the creationist news site of the Discovery 
Institute in the last week.  Isn't Wells exactly the type that you do 
not want to have associated with the current ID scam?  Wells, was never 
an IDiotic "theorist" like most of the other ID perps.  All that he was 
into was the usual creationist obfuscation and denial (the switch scam). 
  Wells admitted to getting his PhD in order to support his religious 
beliefs, and he was likely never serious in his scientific endeavors in 
terms of adding anything to our scientific knowledge.  He spent his 
whole "science" career doing as little as possible to better our 
understanding of nature.

The latest article even has a picture of him giving a scam lecture on 
his bogus Icons of Evolution creationist denial book.

Shouldn't the ID perps be more interested in producing the ID science 
that they have always lied about having?

Wells should be known as being one of the ID perps (Wells and Meyer) 
that ran the first bait and switch in Ohio in 2002.  Wells wrote a 
report on the first bait and switch claiming that they had decided to do 
it before giving their ID perp dog and pony show to the Ohio rubes. 
Even though he knew that the bait and switch was going to go down and 
that the Ohio rubes were not going to get any ID science to teach in the 
public schools Wells told the board that the ID science had been 
developed enough for the issue to be forced into the public school system.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110814145400/http:/www.creationists.org/archived-obsolete-pages/2002-03-11-OSBE-wells.html

QUOTE:
Steve Meyer and I (in consultation with others) had decided ahead of 
time that we would not push for including intelligent design (ID) in the 
state science standards, but would propose instead that the standards 
include language protecting teachers who choose to teach the controversy.
END QUOTE:

You have to understand that Meyer had been the lead cheerleader for 
teaching ID in the public schools at this time.  He was a coauthor on 
both the teach ID scam booklet (1999) and the Utah law review article 
(2000) claiming that it was legal to teach ID in the public schools. 
When it came time to put up or shut up, Meyer decided to start running a 
bait and switch scam.  From then on ID has only been used as bait to 
force the rubes into taking a stupid obfuscation and denial switch scam, 
and the rubes can't mention ID nor creationism ever existed.

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Ohio-debates-evolution-Scientists-accuse-2864344.php 


QUOTE:
With equal fervor, Jonathan Wells, senior fellow at the Discovery
Institute, a Seattle organization dedicated to alternative scientific
theories, contended that there was enough valid challenge to Darwinian
evolution to justify intelligent design's being ordered into the
classroom curriculum -- not as a religious doctrine, he maintained, but
as a matter of "a growing scientific controversy."
END QUOTE:

Until the bait and switch started to go down the Discovery Institute had 
included teaching ID in their Teach the Controversy political ploy. 
Wells continued supporting that scam even though he knew that the Ohio 
rubes were never going to get any ID science to teach.

Does anyone wonder why none of the ID perps want to remember these 
Wellsian contributions to the ID bait and switch scam?

Ron Okimoto