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Poor Casey Luskin. Here he expends all the time and effort to try to paint the opposition to Iowa's version of the Discovery Institute's "academic freedom" legislation as unfairly characterizing the bill as attempting to inject religion into public classrooms and along comes one of his "allies" and blows his cover:

That "science-related" is a nice touch. Basically, the bill's supporters see it as including anything that anyone might take it into his head to say about science ... oh, like fossils all originated in the Flood. And, of course, this bill has nothing at all to do with religion ... which is why the lobbyist in favor of it mentions God and science in the same breath.

Hector Avalos, Iowa State University professor of religious studies; James W. Demastes, University of Iowa associate professor of biology; and Tara C. Smith, University of Iowa assistant professor of epidemiology, have organized a petition by over 200 faculty members from Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa, as well as from 17 other Iowa universities, colleges and community colleges, seven primary and secondary schools, and three research organizations. You might note that this petition, solely from the state of Iowa, has over a quarter of the names that the Discovery Institute's bogus "Dissent From Darwinism" list has collected worldwide. On top of Pawlewski's admission, the organizers made the following observation:

So all Casey can do is keep pounding the less-than-credible line that all the DI wants to do is allow teachers to discuss the "weaknesses" of evolution which, for some reason, are never spelled out. Could it be that they are all the same ol' arguments that it makes in favor of ID?

Well, as a "Darwinist," I guess it's time for me to say something nasty about Luskin to subject him to "ridicule, intimidation, or worse" ...

Ahem: From the evidence of this article, Luskin is less forthcoming, less honest about his motives, than a registered lobbyist.
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