While George Bush avoids Cindy Sheehan and makes pronouncements about creationist education, Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic offers a fabulous analysis of the issues that are really alive in the "Intelligent Design" absurdity.
Check out his article here. If you aren't already registered with The New Republic you'll have to jump through their little hoops, but it's free and it's worth it.
You might also want to have a look at the Jerry Coyne article on the Harrisburg Pennsylvania school case (where's Clarence Darrow when we need him?) that launched this rickety ship.
Since when did religion become scientific theory in the modern world and when ever did accurate science actually do harm to a true and reasoned faith? These realities don't speak to the same part of the human animal. Something I learned a long time ago in seminary (before the extreme fundamentalists gutted anything that could actually be mistaken for education) was that Science and Faith are NOT mutually exclusive, but you better not try to make them explain the same things. They don't let them teach that any more since the reactionaries took control of the SBC, but that doesn't make it any less true.
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