Intelligent design has even made its way into college football coverage.(Hat tip to Evolgen and Panda’s Thumb.) Here’s how they combine the two topics:
Ironically, Baylor’s public relations woes and internal identity crisis can be traced to the city where the Bears will be playing Washington State’s Cougars this Saturday: Seattle.
The notion of refashioning creationism into “intelligent design,” and then pushing it as legitimate science rather than philosophy or faith, was hatched at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. And Baylor came to Seattle to find a director for its now-defunct Intelligent Design research center.
When it comes to evolution, though, Baylor head coach Guy Morriss is hell bent on transmutating the Bears back into winners.