(AgapePress) - A group of evolutionists -- all named "Steve" or a form thereof -- has issued a statement that hails evolution-only instruction in public schools and pokes fun at advocates of intelligent design.

The statement from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) was signed by more than 200 people named Steve who support the theory of evolution. The document attempts to discredit the intelligent design movement, which has made inroads recently in the State of Ohio. It pokes fun at those who support critical analysis of Darwinism in the classroom, refers to intelligent design as "creationist pseudoscience," and says it is inappropriate and irresponsible for it to be taught in public school science classes.

Jody Sjogren, with the pro-intelligent design group Science Excellence for All Ohioans, says it is clear evolutionists are taking desperate measures to justify their theory.

"They've run out of ammunition," she says. "If this is all they can come up with, it doesn't say anything more for their theory -- and it shows a certain amount of fear that students, teachers, parents, and citizens alike are expressing curiosity and interest in intelligent design."

Sjogran says evolutionists are adamantly opposed to diversity of thought in school science standards.

"There's big confusion being promoted by the Darwinists as to what the real issue is," she says. "The question 'What is the cause for origin of life?' -- from a scientific standpoint -- can only be answered in one of three ways: it's either natural law, chance, or design. In other words, it's either natural causes or intelligent causes."

Sjogren says Darwinists are making themselves increasingly irrelevant with their approach to the origin of life, and she believes their intellectual monopoly over the issue is eroding quickly. She believes that as people look more closely at the theory of intelligent design, they will find it is a very scientific and objective method of determining the cause for the origin of life.

According to the NCSE, "Project Steve" is a tongue-in-cheek parody that honors the late Harvard evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould.

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