The Discovery Institute refused to appear on the special when they were not permitted to rig the rules of their appearance.
Then they sat back and sniped at it.
They also sat out of the Dover court case.

Seems like when the Kleig lights come on, they take a powder.

Of course, the best place for them to make their case is in the scientific community. In that they have utterly failed, and don't even merit a footnote in the development of evolutionary theory.

Whether or not scientists believe in some kind of supernatural being is neither here nor there then it comes to alternative theories to evolution. Since there is no evidence of the supernatural, it's a discussion which has to take place in an entirely other sphere of their lives. Personally I don't understand how anyone can believe that stuff, much less scientists. But as I say, it's an irrelevant point.


In any case, I'd like to see the polling data. Who did they classify as "scientist?" What was the actual question posed?

As for your second poll, I simply don't believe it. At least, I don't believe the results are what you think they are. I went back through the posts and didn't find a link to your poll. I would ask, what was the exact question posed? What definition of "scientist" was used? Did the "scientists" include undergraduates in social sciences? Were they all Ph Ds in hard sciences? I doubt it. 

It's amazing what you can learn from polls:

Creationism -- that is, the idea that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years

39% of the people polled are definately idiots
27% are probably idiots
16% are probably not idiots
15% are definately not idiots
3%  don't know if they're idiots

Now, the valuable poll would be to then poll the people in the 15%, since you can rule out the value of anything the other people have to say.


edit: btw here is the comparison of the Larson poll:

Table 1 Comparison of survey answers among "greater" scientists 
Belief in personal God        1914                    1933                   1998
Personal belief                   27.7                   15                       7.0
Personal disbelief               52.7                   68                        72.2
Doubt or agnosticism          20.9                   17                        20.8
 
Belief in human immortality  1914 1933 1998
Personal belief                    35.2    18    7.9
Personal disbelief                25.4    53    76.7
Doubt or agnosticism           43.7    29    23.3

Is that the DI/Creationist spin on this?

Oh, RF, you are precious!