Rubes on the Right.

It's actually a bit reassuring that the "Discovery Institute" is just in it for the money.

Some local school board will take the Act as a permit to bring religious instruction into their science classes. That will irk some parents. Those parents will sue. There will be a noisy and expensive federal lawsuit, possibly followed by further noisy and expensive appeals. The school board will inevitably lose. The property owners of that school district will take the financial hit.

Where will the Discovery Institute be when these legal expenses come due? Just where they were in the Dover case — nowhere! What, you were thinking that those bold warriors for truth at the Discovery Institute will help to fund the defense in these no-hope lawsuits? Ha ha ha ha ha!

Helping to defend creationist school boards in federal courts is not the Discovery Institute's game. Their game is to (a) make money from those spurious "textbooks" they put out, and (b) keep creationism in the news so that they don't run out of lecture gigs and wealthy funders. So far as those legal bills are concerned, Discovery Institute policy is: Let the dumb rubes fund their own stupid lawsuits.

Scam.

Of course they could still actually believe in the insanity that a religious idea of how organisms change is on par with a scientific one.

As they love to point out, yes, Evolution is a theory. That's because it's an idea that can be tested and refined. It's like how gravity is a theory.

How do you test to find that there's some grand supernatural intelligence behind life's existence? Religion requires faith beyond rationality and physical evidence. That's the whole point.

So what if science shows that the earth is millions of years older (or younger) than your Holy book says it is. As long as your God is all powerful no amount of scientific evidence could refute what you believe.

IE: God just made the earth look older than it really is.

But when you have people with blind faith in something. Charlatans and conmen can take advantage of their desires that overpower any caution or logic.

That's how cults, conspiracy theories, and certain political groups work.