Your OFFICIAL program to the Scopes II Kansas Monkey Trial

But Case, the KU professor who helped write the pro-evolution standards, says he's personally looking forward to some of the more colorful witnesses on Harris' list.

"Most of these people will go off on religious rants," Case says, which will make it obvious that ID's claim to be religiously neutral is a calculated dodge. "Except for Behe and the Discovery Institute people, the rest will go off on religious topics. We're glad they're coming."

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter whether the witnesses betray their real religious program. With folks like Kathy Martin in control, there's little doubt which way the board will vote once the dust settles.

When Mustafa Akyol flies home to Turkey, where evolution is already thoroughly defeated, he can feel comforted in the knowledge that he's done his little part to see to it that, back here in the United States, a thin wedge has been put in place that could, with the right push, send us on the same path.