Strategy 3: Engage and distract a scientist

A large source of opposition to the teaching of Creation in publich schools comes from evolutionary biologists, geologists, and other scientists at colleges, universities, and liberal think tanks. But to be an effective force, these individuals must have free time in which to advise parents and school boards. Therefore, since 1993 we have been promoting the "Adopt a Scientist" plan, which entails engaging the person in discussions via e-mail and on discussion boards. In particular, by logging into "evolution friendly" discussion forums under several different login names, Creationists can effectively tie up a scientist for several hours a week. By 1998, we felt that this program had distracted a substantial number of scientists from developing evolution-centered lesson plans for middle schools, from writing textbooks for high school, and from other activities that tend to facilitate the teaching of evolution in the K through 12 curricula. We like to call it, "blogging them down." For especially active scientists, we have encouraged "double teaming"; in some cases up to 12 individuals have combined forces to distract a single scientist. In these situations it is unusually effective for several members to log in as "teachers in search of help", which draws in evolutionary biologists, for hours, like helpless moths.

To find some evolutionary biology discussion groups, run a Google search for "evolution discussion." Have fun!

More broadly, more and more evolutionary biologists feel compelled to write large books critiquing Creationism, Intelligent Design, and other ideas that undermine their beliefs in scientism. These books take a long time to write, and are only purchased by authors of similar books out of professional courtesy. Those prolific evolutionists just don't seem to realize that their efforts would be far, far greater if they stopped writing books and started writing lesson plans for public school teachers. Ha!