Abstract
Frymire, a petroleum geologist from Tulsa, is dismayed that a "creationist resurgence" threatens the quality of science education in Oklahoma and the nation. Frymire sees Boalt Hall law professor Phillip Johnson as the principal culprit for the sad state of affairs that has biology educators fighting to keep evolution in the curriculum. The fear is that Johnson's intelligent design movement would introduce supernatural explanations in science and thereby subvert genuine science education. If evolution is, as Dobzhansky claimed, the central organizing principle of biology, then any anti-evolutionary approach that wins popular approval represents a threat to the integrity of biology and must be challenged.