Earlier this month the people behind NPR's Science Friday radio show took some time to have a Legal Friday. On that day, they filed a suit against a minister/broadcaster named Bob Enyart for calling his Colorado-based radio program "Real Science Friday."

NPR's Science Friday is a multimedia machine with radio broadcasts on NPR, podcasts, online content, and more. It's backed by the Science Friday Initiative, which performs additional outreach intended to help give the public access to the latest in science.

Enyart's program also has all of the above (the radio program, the podcasts, the YouTube videos). But it lacks the backing of a foundation—and the science part. His "Real Science Friday" website (Tagline: "Don't Be Fooled by NPR's parody titled Science Friday ;)") contains a variety of standard creationist material, much of it attacking evolution, but some of it arguing for a Universe that's only a few thousand years old as well.

Having listened to one "Real Science Friday" podcast about how caterpillars destroy atheism (don't ask), I came away feeling like I lost a few IQ points in the process. While Ars feels that Enyart and his partner, Fred Williams, should probably be sued for false advertising in calling their material "science," Science Friday is suing the two podcasters for trademark violations, cybersquatting, and false advertising in passing themselves off as the NPR program.

The suit notes that Science Friday has five registered trademarks and claims that the creationist group is diluting them and confusing consumers. Science Friday says that in iTunes, the creationist podcast shows up in searches and in the "Listeners also subscribed to" section. On Google, it lands on top of the second page of results ahead of several legitimate web pages. (As of this writing, both of those facts stand.)

The suit demands a variety of relief for the NPR program, asking that the creationists be made to stop using the logo in electronic form, turn over the Internet domain, and hand over any physical materials (like CDs) that bear the logo. Enyart would also have to purge the term from all electronic outlets—YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, and the Feedburner RSS service. "Real Science Friday" would have to turn over its financial records as well, and would face financial damages as determined by the courts.

The suit was filed on Science Friday's home turf in the New York State Supreme Court.