In response to such legal decisions, creationism has evolved by avoiding the word creationism. A current euphemism is intelligent design theory, promoted in the creationist textbook Of Pandas and People . It comes as no surprise to someone familiar with the arguments of the now-discredited scientific creationists that intelligent design and abrupt appearance proofs are identical with those of scientific creationism. It is a tactically excellent argument. To the scientific community, evidence against evolution and in fact, the entire anti-evolution movement, is incomprehensible.
Evolution is fundamental to biology and geology, and of primary importance to many other sciences.
In the world of science, arguments occur over how evolution occurred, or how fast, or what creature is descended from what. Whether evolution occurs is just not an issue at the university level. Noteworthy is the fact that in every prominent university or college in the country, including Brigham Young, Notre Dame, Southern Methodist, and Baylor, evolution is part of the curriculum. Nevertheless, anti-evolutionism remains widespread in popular culture. In 1992, CBS aired a two-hour program purporting to prove scientifically that there was an actual, literal Great Flood and that human and dinosaur footprints are found together in a Texas river.