RON BAILEY REPORTS on the Kansas Intelligent Design hearings:

Who needs to make monkeys out of the Kansas Board of Education when its members are doing such a good job of it themselves? . . .

The anti-evolutionists affect not to know who or what the “intelligent designer” of their theory might be. He, she, it, or they could be little green men or purple space squid or a race of intelligent supercomputers—or maybe, just maybe, an omnipotent God. Who knows? We’re all just innocently asking “scientific” questions here.

But away from the glare of media attention, this pose of scientific objectivity cracks. “ID has theological implications. ID is not strictly Christian, but it is theistic,” admitted board member Martin. The intelligent design proponents in Kansas ask: Why not let children in public schools hear arguments for intelligent design in biology classes? Schools could “teach the controversy.”

Biologists retort by asking, “So it’s OK then for high schools to teach astrology, phrenology, mesmerism, tarot card reading, crystal healing, astral projection and water witching, too?”

Personally, I’m a Tiplerite.