Bush: "intelligent design" is worth teaching

President Bush told a group of Texas newspapers that he thinks "intelligent design" should be taught alongside evolution in schools (the Seattle Times has a good version of the story). Fortunately, he will not change any minds on this question.

"Intelligent design" is merely denatured, stealth creationism, and an insult to real intelligence. Its central argument — not an argument, an axiom — is that the characteristics of living things are too complex to have resulted from evolutionary means. In other words, in stipulating that no one is allowed to imagine an evolutionary explanation, "intelligent design" is a naked attempt to lobotomize human ingenuity. It is as antiscientific as a mob with torches.