Smithsonian Pulls Out Of Sponsoring Film

“The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History has withdrawn its co-sponsorship of a showing later this month of a film that supports the theory of “intelligent design.The museum said it would not cancel the screening of the film, “The Privileged Planet,” but would return the $16,000 that the Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes a skeptical view of the Darwinian theory of evolution, had paid it.”