Here we go again. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the California Science Center, an organization affiliated with the Smithsonian, is facing a lawsuit from a group called the American Freedom Alliance. The group planned to rent the Center's IMAX theater in order to show a movie called "Darwin's Dilemma," which attacks the theory of evolution and promotes intelligent design. When the anti-evolution, pro-ID Discovery Institute stepped in, the Center used a clause in the contract to cancel the showing, attracting suits from both groups.

The AFA's vision statement says that it "aims to build a national alliance of people of faith," and the group apparently decided to use the public controversy over evolution as a way to do that. The film it chose features several Discovery Institute fellows, and was produced by a company that lists the DI as a "research link," along with an organization, the Access Research Network, that has Discovery fellows on its board

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