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“As Michael Behe pointed out in an interview with the Harvard Political Review for a biologist to questionDarwinism endangers one’s career. ‘There’s good reason to be afraid. Even if you’re not fired from your job,you will easily be passed over for promotions. I would strongly advise graduate students who are skeptical ofDarwinian theory not to make their views known.’ ... Doubting Darwinian orthodoxy is comparable to opposingthe party line of a Stalinist regime. ... Overzealous critics of intelligent design regard it as their moral duty tokeep biology free from intelligent design, even if that means taking extreme measures. I’ve known such criticsto contact design theorists’ employers and notify them of the ‘heretics’ in their midst. Once ‘outed,’ the designtheorists themselves get harassed and harangued with e-mails. Next, the press does a story mentioning theirunsavory intelligent design associations. (The day one such story appeared, a close friend and colleague ofmine mentioned in the story was dismissed from his research position at a prestigious molecular biologylaboratory. He had worked in that lab for ten years. ... Welcome to the inquisition” (The Design Revolution, pp.304, 305).Walt Brown, who has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT, describes the way thatevolutionists have controlled the scientific fields since the day of Thomas Huxley. He uses thefield of geology as an example:“Professors in the new and growing field of geology were primarily selected from those who supported theanti-catastrophe principle. These professors did not advance students who espoused catastrophes. Anadvocate of a global flood was branded a ‘biblical literalist’ or ‘fuzzy thinker’--not worthy of an academicdegree. Geology professors also influenced, through the peer review process, what papers could bepublished. Textbooks soon reflected their orthodoxy, so few students became ‘fuzzy thinkers.’ This practicecontinues to this day, because a major criterion for selecting professors is the number of their publications” (Inthe Beginning, p. 253).Consider Dr. Caroline Crocker, a cell-biologist and full-time visiting faculty member at GeorgeMason University. After she showed several slides about intelligent design in a class on cells, shewas reprimanded, pulled from lecture duties, and her contract was not renewed the followingsemester. She testified: “Students are not allowed to question Darwinism. There are universitieswhere they poll students on what they believe and single them out.”Some Darwinists have even hinted at or openly called for the imprisonment of creationists.“Richard Dawkins has written that anyone who denies evolution is either ‘ignorant, stupid or insane (orwicked--but I’d rather not consider that’) (New York Times, April 9, 1989, sec. 7, p. 34). It isn’t a big step fromcalling someone wicked to taking forceful measures to put an end to their wickedness. John Maddox, theeditor of Nature, has written in his journal that ‘it may not be long before the practice of religion must beregarded as anti-science’ (‘Defending Science Against Anti-Science,’ Nature, 368, 185). In his recent bookDarwin’s Dangerous Idea, philosopher Daniel Dennett compares religious believers--90 percent of thepopulation--to wild animals who may have to be caged, and he says that parents should be prevented(presumably by coercion) from misinforming their children about the truth of evolution, which is so evident tohim” (Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box, chapter 11).As a response to this persecution, IDEA was founded in 2001. It stands for Intelligent Design andEvolution Awareness. It seeks to promote the free discussion of ID and has encouraged theestablishment of clubs on college and high school campuses.14. Evolution is a religion that has been biased against the Bible and the God of the Biblefrom its inception; it is more about rejecting God than it is about science.In 2000, Dr. Michael Ruse wrote:185