Eugenie Scott on Ring of Fire
Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education was on the Ring of Fire program on Air America Radio one week ago. This is the first chance I’ve had to review it.
You can listen to the program on their website (click on “RF 063007 Hour 2 Jason Alexander Eugenie Scott”).
The show begins with Jason Alexander talking about his efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. The Eugenie Scott interview begins about 18 minutes into the segment. The interview focusses on The Discovery Institute and their stealth tactics to subvert the Constitution.
Scott says that the DI is actually a fairly small group of people, but they are extremely well fund(i)ed and have been very successful pushing their agenda.
The DI is known primarily for its promotion of “intelligent design” creationism, but its scope is actually much broader. Much of the DI’s agenda is right-wing libertarian (e.g., shrink government to the point of ineffectiveness, laissez-faire capitalism, etc.).
Scott talks about the Wedge Document, which is, to quote Scott, “a roadmap to theocracy”. She says they want to “rechristianize America”; “they want to establish Christianity as virtually the state religion” (by this she means in a de facto sense instead of officially).
This is an excellent interview. I strongly urge you to listen to it.
