Probably the leading institution in the United States in the effort to deprecate the theory of evolution and promote the teaching of intelligent design is the Discovery Institute of Seattle Washington.
This same Institute claims to have a bioethics program, and it is run by Wesley J. Smith a frequent commentator on stem cell research, cloning and assisted suicide.
Pennsylvania Federal court has now ruled in the Dover, PA I.D. trial. The ruling calls into question both the ID movement and those persons and institutions such as the Discovery Institute which are dedicated to promoting ID.
U.S. District Judge John E Jones delivered a blistering rebuke to the effort to place ID into the science curriculum. He states that the effort to promote ID in Dover violates the constitution and is patently a ploy to teach religion. He decried what he termed the “breathtaking inanity” of the attempt to market ID as science and said that board members had lied again and again in trying to conceal their real motive which is to promote Christianity not science.
So the question arises why should anyone credit anything or anyone affiliated with the Discovery Institute when it comes to matters of ethics and science?
The ID movement has now been outed and completely discredited. It is time for those who are truly interested in science and ethics to break any ties with this fraudulent movement.
– Art Caplan