Original sentence: Picard signed the Discovery Institute's anti-evolution petition, "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism".This petition has been widely used by its sponsor, the Discovery Institute, and their supporters in a national campaign to discredit evolution and promote the teaching of intelligent design in public schools
Edited sentence: Ironically, Darwin himself expressed his own reservations, remarking that his theory could not account for the origin of life itself, but only the origin of new species from those already in existence.Picard signed the Discovery Institute's controversial petition, "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism".This one-sentence petition, calling for scientific skepticism, has been exploited by its sponsor, the Discovery Institute, and some of their supporters in a national campaign to discredit evolution and to promote the teaching of intelligent design in public schools