Fortunately, we also had numerous Texas scientists who had volunteered to testify, including Dr. William Dembski, Dr. Walter Bradley, Dr. Patton, and several medical doctors, teachers, engineers, and parents. Our side dominated the early time slots, which was good. Our speakers were very well prepared, mannered, on time, and talked about science issues. Science specifics. Weaknesses of the theory. The other side mostly had a mantra or two largely originating from the California based Darwinian thought police, NCSE (Dr. Eugenie Scott, et. al.), such as "don't remove evolution" or "don't water down evolution" or "don't insert religion or creation science". (none of which we were advocating). They presented almost no 'science' and almost all rhetoric. Their testifiers included several members of the Austin Atheist Community.
The Discovery Institute, even while suffering a decidedly inhospitable situation, were extremely well prepared, professional in all ways, and well spoken. This is in spite of the late and unofficial testifying time. Dr. Wells and others were criticized from the podium while some opposition board members were unwilling to challenge those criticisms. Dr. Wells and others were unable to respond until the very end when over half of the SBOE had left the meeting.
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