School is back in session

Ok. Summer is over and the kids are back in school. All through August, the popular press has been running articles about the activism of the Intelligent Design movement. If you don't know what this is, consider yourself lucky. If you have heard about it, but aren't sure what is going on then check out Prof. Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve. He has been doing a great job of dealing with this as a scientist and as a public speaker. His interest started when Ohio started to deal with revamping science standards and ended up punting the question by saying that "controversy over evolution" should be taught in high school.

The last time around, when the issue was 'creationism', one of the most vocal defenders of evolution was Richard Dawkins, whose "The Blind Watchmaker" does a wonderful job of describing how intricate solutions to life's problems can arise from evolutionary mechanisms. See Dawkins review of Michael Behe's book about Intelligent Design.

With each word in the popular press about this crap, they lend more credibility to the Discovery Institute, simply by acknowleging it.