In this important book published by Oxford University Press in 2004, Forrest and Gross assert that there is a new strategy afoot among pro-creationists. What Forrest and Gross claimed four years ago is every bit as much true today. This strategy consists of ...
... a no-holds-barred commitment to particular, parochial religious beliefs about the history and fabric of the world ... This variant has eliminated brilliantly the obstacle of rational opposition to ideology ... The new strategy is wonderfully simple. Here is how you implement it: exploiting that modern, nearly universal, liberal suspicion of zealotry, you accuse the branch of legitimate inquiry whose results you hate, in this case the evolutionary natural sciences, of -- what else? -- zealotry! ... Crying "viewpoint discrimination," you loudly demand adherence to the principle of freedom of speech, especially in teaching, insisting that such freedom is being denied your legitimate alternative view...
This bold strategy is working, not just with religious fundamentalists, who do not need to be convinced anyway, but with people who have no such fundamentalist commitment and who are in principle well-enough educated to see what is happening. ...
This lusty new variant of creationism is advancing rapidly by means of a strategy called "The Wedge."
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