Be sure to check out the December issue of
Harper's Magazine, where Stanley Fish explains how the Intelligent Design droids have borrowed from the left in order to promote a debate on creationism: by making appeals to relativism. He concludes:
...the right itself, whose members now recite the mantras of "teach the controversy" or "keep the debate open" whenever they find it convenient. They do so not out of a commitment to scrupulous scholarship (although that is what is asserted) but in an effort to accomplish through misdirection and displacement what they cannot accomplish through evidence and argument.
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