Devolution

Devolution – subtitled: Why Intelligent Design Isn’t – is the title of an article written by H. Allen Orr for The New Yorker. It is one of the best-written pieces of journalism I’ve yet read on why Intelligent Design isn’t science.

The noise made by the supporters of ID is growing in volume in the US (and even, heaven help us, in the usually pragmatic Netherlands*). So it is good to see some clear voices prepared to state that the emperor has no clothes and that ID is simply junk science. The sooner this boil of ID is lanced, the better it will be.

* Last Saturday’s Volkskrant carried an interview with Maria van der Hoeven, Minister for Education, Culture and Science. She wants a "broad debate over evolutionary theory" and has written in her weblog of her interest in ID. Personally, I would think holding such a view would disqualify anyone from holding a ministerial post with the words "education" and "science" in the title, but then, oxymorons seem to abound in this world.