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Creation science, intelligent design, and the missing link
The PR catastrophe for Discovery Institute of the Kitzmiller trial concerned in large part revised editions the Of Pandas and People promoted at trial by various DI-sponsored experts, particularly DI Fellow Michael Behe. The issue began when the some proponents of intelligent design associated with Pandas found a need to distinguish it from creation science, whose teaching in public science class had been negated as a violation of the Establishment Clause by the Supreme Court in Louisiana "Balanced Treatment Act" case — Edwards v. Aguillard.

An early contributor to Pandas, Charles Thaxton, proposed a term replace creation science, which he "picked up from a NASA scientist – intelligent design". In a new draft of Pandas, approximately 150 uses of the root word "creation", such as "creationism" and "creationist", were systematically changed to refer to "intelligent design." Panda editors also deleted more than 250 references to "creationism" and the "creator" and replaced them in the final version with "intelligent design" and "intelligent designer". .

Following pattern, the term "creationists" was quietly changed to "design proponents", but in one telling case, the beginning and end of the original word "creationists" were accidentally retained, so that "creationists" became "cdesign proponentsists". "The basic metabolic pathways (reaction chains) of nearly all organisms are the same. Is this because of descent from a common ancestor, or because only these pathways (and their variations) can sustain life? Evolutionists think the former is correct, cdesign proponentsists accept the latter view." The proof that intelligent design was creationism re-labeled played a significant part in the Kitzmiller trial, and cdesign proponentsists has been described as "the missing link between creationism and intelligent design."