a wonderful article

I spent an hour tonight reading an amazing article on Evolution and Intelligent Design. It is from the 8/22/05 edition of the New Republic. A must read for anyone with interest in evolution and the debate over what should be taught in our public schools.

Because the battle rages on. Evolution is as solidly supported a scientific theory as exists in all of science. We are as likely to disprove gravity or Newton's laws of thermodynamics as we are to disprove evolution in any serious way. Which is not to say our understanding is the same as Darwin's in the 1850's. But the three principles he outlined in The Origin of Species have much more support from the fossil record than even he would have imagined. But there is a court case now ongoing in Pennsylvania about the right to teach intelligent design alongside evolution in our science classes.

Go and read this article, entitled The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name, by Jerry Coyne. Here is a link, though you may need to register. I don't know if the New Republic is free or not, but it is certainly worth the nominal fee registration would require.

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050822&s=coyne082205&c=1