Or at least his ideas are.

I had the pleasure of attending Sacramento’s Darwin Day event Sunday.
 
The guest speaker was none other than Nick Matzke, the representative from the National Center for Science Education that spent a year as the science “go-to guy” for the plaintiff team in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the much publicized Intelligent Design landmark case.
 
My favorite part of the presentation was when Mr. Matzke put up on the overhead these lines of text from the various versions of “Of Pandas and People.” (Earlier versions had more obvious titles)

Creation Biology (1983), p. 3-34:
“Evolutionists think the former is correct; creationists because of all the evidence discussed in this book, conclude the latter is correct.”
 
Biology and Creation (1986), p. 3-33:
“Evolutionists think the former is correct, creationists accept the latter view.”
 
Biology and Origins (1987), p. 3-38:
“Evolutionists think the former is correct, creationists accept the latter view.”

Of Pandas and People (1987, creationist version), p. 3-40:
“Evolutionists think the former is correct, creationists accept the latter view.”
 
Of Pandas and People (1987, “intelligent design” version), p. 3-41:
“Evolutionists think the former is correct, cdesign proponentsists accept the latter view.”

It has been noted that the designers of Creationism’s evolution haven’t been so intelligent.

Because the NCSE had archives showing one of the previous versions existed, (Creation Biology I believe) they were able to subpoena all the versions of it and found this huge windfall.  Not only was the book the predecessor to “Of Pandas and People” it was changed very little from one version to the next.  If you look at the last version you can see the evidence of word processor search-and-replace with the hilarious result of “cdesign proponentsists.”  This is the sort of search and replace frankenstein result one gets when more than one search and replace is performed and the first error was not caught.
 
We had a good turn out.  I would guess well over 100 people.  The event was hosted by several of the local scientific and atheist/humanist/freethinker organizations in the area.
 
On the radar is 2009 Darwin Day – his 150th birthday.  It should be quite an event!

 jeffersonish