Intelligent Design not about God?

Though the well-known ID proponents are usually careful not to mention God by name, the unbleached roots of their creationist past show up now and again.

Someone forgot to tell Pat Robertson how to work the ID scam. He has told the citizens of Dover, PA, who just voted out a school board that tried to put (un)intelligent design in the curriculum, that they shouldn't turn to God in an emergency since they've voted him out of their city.

My friend Rich has written a good blog entry about this:

http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/poweroftheschwartz.nsf/d6plinks/RSCZ-6J26W9

Changing minds

That's what it's all about. How to do it though? Logic and reason don't seem effective sometimes.

Over at Hullabaloo, Digby observes that:


It is vitally important to distinguish between the methods used to establish that a fact is a fact and the tactics used to persuade the larger public to accept that fact. They are not one and the same.


He recommends this mantra:

The President is a liar. The Democrats did not have the same intelligence as the White House did.


and then repeat this a bunch more times:

The President is a liar.


Who knew it would be that easy? Seriously though, he's got a rational for this. We're dealing with people who are emotionally attached to a delusion. Attacking the delusion won't work. Attack the emotional attachment though, and the delusion may just get dropped when the former zombie starts thinking again. It's a little more complicated than I'm making it seem in this summary, but it starts with that simple message.

Here's a link to the whole article:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_11_13_digbysblog_archive.html#113197723122820348

Changed anyone's mind lately? How did you do it?