Mr. Martin (left), Kyle Anderson (right)

On Friday, March 8, reporter Kyle Anderson from WCHM Channel 4 interviewed Mr. Martin, founder of the Young Earth Creation Club.  The interview was basically to discuss what we (creationists) are expecting to happen at the March 11 meeting of the Standards Committee of the Ohio State Board of Education.  The meeting will be a panel discussion of Intelligent Design.  

WCMH put some excerpts from the report on their web site at the following link:

http://www.nbc4columbus.com/news/1294910/detail.html

A few comments about this report.

1. It was balanced and fair.  Mr. Anderson did a professional job in the way he conducted the interview, and presented the final edited version.
2. The following quote appeared in the broadcast and web versions of the report:  "I would really like to hear what the evolutionists and the creationists or the intelligent design folks both have to say from a scientific perspective and stay away from the name-calling," Martin said. That is an accurate quote from me.  However, it needs some clarification.  One of the things I'm usually quick to point out to others is that creationism and intelligent design are not the same thing (see this link for an explanation of the differences).  By referring to both of them in the context of this discussion, I may have left the impression that I think they are the same.  I could have worded that better than I did.  What I was thinking when I said that is that most Creationists consider intelligent design to be good science.  In that sense, it is appropriate to lump them together.  However, what was not said is that not all who consider ID to be good science are creationists.  Additionally, creationism does identify the designer.  ID makes no attempt to.  This is not the reporter's fault.  I should have been a bit more careful with the way I worded that statement.
3. The reporter did make a clear statement that there is a difference between ID and creationism.  That is a fact that I have rarely heard in the secular news media, and reporter Kyle Anderson is to be commended for his attempt to clarify that point.

We hope that future reports by WCMH on this topic will be as fair and balanced as this one was.