In Educating the Media about Intelligent Design, It's Good to Be Able to Report Progress

Last week I wrote a "Letter to a Young Darwin Activist's Parents," meant partly in jest and partly in earnest. I pointed out the persistent untruths circulated by a writer for Slate, Zack Kopplin, who identifies intelligent design with creationism and claims over and over again that teaching "creationism" is what academic freedom laws like the Louisiana Science Education Act are intended to protect.

The part that was in jest was the notion that college student Zack would dutifully print out...