Intelligent Design’s founder reframed the evolution fight to avoid a science-versus-Bible framing

Evidence

The great problem from the Christian viewpoint is that the whole controversy over evolution has traditionally been phrased as a Bible vs. Science issue, and then the question becomes how do you defend the Bible? … Now, the problem with approaching it this way is that in our culture it is understood that science is some objective fact-finding proceeding. And if you are arguing the Bible vs. Science, then people think that you are arguing for blind faith against objectively determined knowledge or experiment. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 275

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the tobacco-strategy doubt-manufacturing described in chapter 2 and Oreskes/Conway’s Merchants of Doubt. — connects to: Intelligent Design’s godfather openly declared himself a postmodernist deconstructionist — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 276; Intelligent Design theory deliberately borrowed postmodernist tactics from evolution’s opponents — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 272