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Tracking the Evolution of Creationist Rhetoric

By Ed Brayton

pOne of the most powerful tools we have for exposing the creationist agenda for public school science classrooms is the fact that we can trace their own words as their rhetoric, ironically, evolves. They continually change their catchphrases and then feign outrage when you point out that they really believe what they said they believed before their change in terminology. "Creationism" becomes "intelligent design" which becomes "critical analysis of evolution" which becomes "teaching the strengths and weaknesses of evolution" which becomes "having the academic freedom to teach the strengths and weaknesses of evolution. The Texas Freedom Network provides an a href="http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/creationists-with-a-political-thesaurus/"excellent example/a of this semantic geneology when it comes to the Texas Board of Education. /p a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/tracking_the_evolution_of_crea.php"Read the rest of this post.../a | a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/tracking_the_evolution_of_crea.php#commentsArea"Read the comments on this post.../aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/dispatches/~4/488712848" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).