Today's
New York Times has the latest
installment in the fundamentalist coup:
"Fossils at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History have been used to prove the theory of evolution. Next month the museum will play host to a film intended to undercut evolution.
The Discovery Institute, a group in Seattle that supports an alternative theory, "intelligent design," is announcing on its Web site that it and the director of the museum "are happy to announce the national premiere and private evening reception" on June 23 for the movie, "The Privileged Planet: The Search for Purpose in the Universe.""
The film, part of the Discovery Institute's campaign to promote Intelligent Design creationism as legitimate science, is being brought to the Smithsonian for the modest fee of $16,000.