A number of people have told me to listen to this Diane Rehm show on "Evolution and Intelligent Design". I don't get it. It consists of Nick Matzke of the NCSE and Alan Leshner, CEO of the AAAS, presenting the facts, and this fellow Richard Land, saying over and over again that everyone should go to discovery.org and that the motives behind Intelligent Design creationism are entirely scientific and not at all religious, that there are all these scientists supporting the "theory", and was continually spouting the scientific credentials of those Discovery Institute hacks.

The irony is that Land is the president of the ethics and religious liberties commission of Southern Baptist Convention. He knows nothing about science, and screwed up repeatedly on basic ideas in science (he doesn't know what a theory is, for instance, and thinks historical theories can't be tested); he's some kind of goofy conservative theologian.

And then they trot out the flip-flopping quotes by Rick Santorum, who babbles about "holes" in the theory of evolution. He's a feather-brained ideologue, not a scientist.

So it was two scientists against a wingnut religious kook. Why does the media even bother with this crap?

As for this nonsense of having Intelligent Design creationism taught alongside real biology, I think this cartoon I found on Anne's Anti-Quackery and Science Blog says it all.

I don't care how many theologians and crackpots you find who declare that alchemy, phrenology, magic, and astrology are rational, scientific disciplines with proponents with Ph.D.s—that doesn't make them science.