Life will find a way

When I commented on intelligent design a few weeks ago, I wrote:

"The war in Iraq, the deficit, the Supreme Court nominee, all of this are very significant events. But intelligent design is a civilisation defining issue. How can a country, in the 21st century, engage in this irrational debate?"

It's not surprising, but it's comforting to read something awfully similar on the BBC website today:

"[It] seems to me that the central political question facing everyone here, far more important than any to do with Iraq or the deficit or Guantanamo Bay, is whether or not the Republican party, after decades of flirting, has finally got into bed with an irrational sect." (Justin Webb, Dinosaurs, evangelicals and the state, November 26, 2005)

The people in Kansas or anywhere else for that matter who defend the teaching of intelligent design alongside Darwin's evolutionism need to be ridiculed as they deserve. They are not just an oddity, they are a danger to the United States. I can't believe for the life of me that their idea will get any traction outside the US, but the US are still the only left superpower for the moment. Let's hope reason and science are not blacklisted there.