PrintDecember 26, 2004
Intelligent design of a newspaper
Hugh Hewitt does a terrific job this morning, taking down an appallingly poorly—researched and —written front page story in the Sunday Washington Post, on the subject of "intelligent design" — the intellectually—respectable thesis that fatal flaws exist in Darwin's theory of macro evolution. Many complex systems could simply not have evolved from less complex building blocks: without a "designer" putting into place pieces which have no functionality without the other pieces also in place, they would not have initially functioned.
The secular fundamentalists react to intelligent design arguments much the way Dracula reacts to the Cross — cursing and fleeing away from its substance, heaping scorn from a safe distance in familiar and secure surroundings — in this case the precincts of the Washington Post, which once in a front page "news" story called evangelicals "poor, uneducated, and easily led." It has become an article of faith among the secular...(Read Full Article)
