Evaluation of Intelligent Design Poll of Lab Scientists and NM Universities

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Dear members of the New Mexico State Board of Education,

I was shocked when I first learned of the surveys conducted by IDnet-NM. I spent 32 years at Sandia as a scientist, supervisor and manager and encountered perhaps a thousand scientists and engineers over that period. I can count on one hand the number of Intelligent Design creationists I knew in that period. It was clear to me that more information was needed to understand and assess the IDnet-NM survey.

I contacted staff at the American Institute of Physics and requested their assistance in learning how the poll was conducted by Zogby International. In addition, I conducted my own poll of several hundred lab scientists, a few non-science employees, and many university professors. The results of this research are presented below. The conclusion is that the IDnet-NM poll is extremely misleading and biased, not statistically significant or even valid, and their conclusions are not supported by their own study or data.

Sincerely,

Dr. Marshall Berman
Past Vice President, New Mexico State Board of Education
Sandia National Laboratories, retired