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The story has now been promoted to "Internet legend" status, and one can now find versions of this story which claim: | The story has now been promoted to "Internet legend" status, and one can now find versions of this story which claim: | ||
*That every instance of the word "creationist" was changed to "Cdesign proponentsists". In fact only one word was changed in this way, the rest were "correctly" changed. | *That every instance of the word "creationist" was changed to "Cdesign proponentsists". In fact only one word was changed in this way, the rest were "correctly" changed. | ||
| − | *That this particular error was noticed during the trial. It was not, in fact, noticed during the trial as [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day6am2.html#day6am889 this transcript] shows. | + | *That this particular error was noticed during the trial. It was not, in fact, noticed during the trial as [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day6am2.html#day6am889 this transcript] shows.<ref>Actually, it was noticed ''before'' the trial, but wasn't used. According to Gordy Slack's (2007) ''The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA,'' the lawyers for the plaintiffs were told of the "cdesign proponentsists" language, but decided not to use it at trial: "The plaintiff's attorneys, after much discussion, decided not to use that page as evidence [in the trial]. 'It would have rubbed salt into the wound, when the wound was a decapitation', says Matzke." (Slack 2007, p. 215, note 11)</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:29, 12 October 2009
The term "cdesign proponentsists" came into being following the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial in Pennsylvania over the legitimacy of teaching intelligent design as science.
A crucial piece of the defense (pro-intelligent design) was a book called Of Pandas and People which was marketed as a science textbook for middle and high school children. During the trial, previous copies of the book were subpoenaed for review. It was demonstrated that, whenever previous versions of the book had the word "creationist" or "creationism" or some similar form, it had been replaced in almost all cases with the term "intelligent design" in later editions.
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Example from the trial
Example of earlier creationist edition (our emphasis):
| "Creation means that the various forms of life began abruptly through the agency of an intelligent creator with their distinctive features already intact. Fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, and wings, etc." |
Example of new Improved Intelligent Design edition (our emphasis):
| "Intelligent design means that various forms of life began abruptly through an intelligent agency, with their distinctive features already intact. Fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, wings, etc." |
This evidence and things like the Wedge Document helped lead John E. Jones III to his verdict that intelligent design was the same as creationism and that the ID movement was a subversive attempt to inject creationism into the classroom.
cdesign proponentsists
Investigations subsequent to the case showed that, in one particular case, an editor had apparently copied and pasted "design proponents" over the word "creationists" but had not even done a proper job resulting in a weird neologism "cdesign proponentsists".[1] [2]
Originally stoled from
- Raght heah. But we've since corrected the errors. The talk page is also pretty good, but we declined to steal that.
A new meme
The story has now been promoted to "Internet legend" status, and one can now find versions of this story which claim:
- That every instance of the word "creationist" was changed to "Cdesign proponentsists". In fact only one word was changed in this way, the rest were "correctly" changed.
- That this particular error was noticed during the trial. It was not, in fact, noticed during the trial as this transcript shows.[3]
The reality remains.
Footnotes
- ↑ How the text changed to Cdesign proponentsists
- ↑ Missing link: “cdesign proponentsists”. This entry is recommended reading for its hilarity.
- ↑ Actually, it was noticed before the trial, but wasn't used. According to Gordy Slack's (2007) The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, PA, the lawyers for the plaintiffs were told of the "cdesign proponentsists" language, but decided not to use it at trial: "The plaintiff's attorneys, after much discussion, decided not to use that page as evidence [in the trial]. 'It would have rubbed salt into the wound, when the wound was a decapitation', says Matzke." (Slack 2007, p. 215, note 11)