Honestly, I’ve not followed the “debates” in Kansas between evolutionists and proponents of Intelligent Design theory. Others have already commented on it, and I don’t think I have much to add to the discussion, but I did come across this article by William Saletan on Slate. As he usually does, Saletan takes evolutionists and, more generally, liberals to task:

It’s too bad liberals and scientists don’t welcome this test. It’s too bad they go around sneering, as censors of science often have, that the new theory is too radical, offensive, or embarrassing to be taken seriously. It’s too bad they think good science consists of believing the right things. In the long view?the evolutionary view?good science consists of using evidence and experiment to find out whether what we thought was right is wrong. If they do that in Kansas, by whatever name, that’s all that matters.

Posted on 11 May 2005