ID and Global Warming – No contest

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Over at Uncommon Descent, "DaveScot" has attempted to make the case that "public interest in global warming evaporates". By his own measure, public interest in ID barely exists.

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The public interest in global warming and ID is evaporating somewhat because economics are on the minds of most people these days. I'm not sure where Dave Scott got his chart there, but just talking to people around my area, people have more an interest in ID than what he shows in that chart...

Michael -

Interest according to this chart has been evaporating sinse early 2006, well before the financial crisis ever loomed in the public eye. The reason is most likely that rather public and humiliating pummeling ID got at the Dover trial. Thank you Mike Behe!