Posthuman Blues

God vs. Darwin: no contest

"'Intelligent design' boils down to the claim sarcastically summed up by aerospace engineer and science consultant Rand Simberg on his blog, Transterrestrial Musings: 'I'm not smart enough to figure out how this structure could evolve, therefore there must have been a designer.' Simberg, a political conservative, concludes that this argument 'doesn't belong in a science classroom, except as an example of what's not science.'

"The notion that the teaching of evolution is some kind of left-wing plot is, to put it plainly, absurd. In addition to the people mentioned above, opponents of teaching 'intelligent design' as an alternative scientific viewpoint include John H. Marburger III, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Earlier this year at the annual conference of the National Association of Science Writers, Marburger responded to an audience question by stating point-blank that 'intelligent design is not a scientific theory' or even a scientific topic."