The blogosphere is humming
about Bush’s notion that Intelligent Design should be taught in
schools. A liberal friend of mine emailed me today asking how I would
teach ID, what I would say about it. This is what I wrote him:
Every time I see a NOVA or something explain how
genetics and heredity work, I can only think one thing: this didn?t
happen by accident. Even how everything fits together ? animals die,
worms eat them, they crap and it all recycles; clouds hold rain, it
falls, goes into the ground and the rivers and streams, evaporates and
goes upward to form clouds that cause rain; flowers grow, attract bees
looking for nectar, who accidentally propagate the plant before flying
away; Earth is just the exact distance from the sun that it needs to
be, no more, no less, anything different and we wouldn?t exist, etc.
Just accidents? I think not. That?s how I would describe it. Also, ask
a parent to look at their newborn child and tell me its just an
accident of protoplasm.
Even one of my old lefty political science professors used to give a
lecture about the compatibility of evolution and religion, basically
coming down on the ID side. I’m not sure what is so upsetting about
this, even to the righty bloggers.
