From Common Sense Plus:
Fayetteville Arkansas and the University of Arkansas campus were paid a visit this evening by a member of the Seattle based creationist group, Discovery Institute; speaking staffer Casey Luskin almost took us by surprise.
Stumbled upon just by chance, an alert member of NWA-United CoR sounded the alarm. It was just in the nick of time; only one day before the scheduled film and lecture event, dubed The Positive Case for Intelligent Design and Why It’s Being Expelled From Academia, would be on the university's launch pad and ready to soar under the radar at an unassuming student population. The Discovery Institute, it can be guessed, still has its sights set on rekindling the embers and spreading the word (and the misinformation) for its thinly disguised creation theory, Intelligent Design and for making a new bid to see creationism taught in science classrooms everywhere. (Their dreaming, right?) They appear to desperately want a retrial of the Dover Pennsylvania court decision NOW and it appears they're working to set the public stage.
The event program, in addition to subjecting audiences to a seat numbing 90+ minute long screening of Ben Stein's video movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," (a film that's been debunked again and again,) Casey Luskin followed up by talking as fast as he could to deliver even more numbing dose of BS in the form of a very, very long long-winded and divisive Powerpoint lecture... All of that came before Lufsin finally yielding to answer a few audience questions. And surprise, surprise, surprise... Mr. Luskin's idea of an answer (even for simple yes-and-no, either-or type questions) conjured the spirits within his bias little body to rant on into entirely new (and ten minute-long) rambling explanations; it was brain-numbing on everyone right down to the bone.
But enough... What was good about this surprise visit? It was this: The small auditorium rented from the University wasn't quite small enough. Only 54 people (by accurate head count) occupied the 250 seat room at any time throughout the program. And guess what? Nine of them were good fiends of mine. All members of our community atheist groups. Additionally, most of the young student types I observed, visited just long enough to quietly and wisely opt for the exit door. Smart!The bottom line...? Be on the look out. Creationist wolves are on the prowl and stalking fresh meat on a campus near you.
I'm glad we let these guys know that they can't come into our town trying to promote Creationism and not expect some hard questions.