For the Iowa folks, the Iowa Secularists will be featuring a discussion of intelligent design (""The Wedge Strategy: How Intelligent Design threatens secularism") at their Annual Conference. The conference will be held July 15 in Johnston, Iowa; more information at the link.
(For those unfamiliar with the "Wedge Strategy" of the Discovery Institute, the document can be found here).
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