Two views of Intelligent Design-Intelligent Design Is Creationism in a Cheap Tuxedo

摘要

My deliberately provocative title is borrowed from Leonard Krishtalka,who directs the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas.Hired-gun "design theorists" in cheap tuxedos have met with some success in getting close to their target:public science education.I hope to convince you that this threat is worth paying attention to.As I write,intelligent design (ID) is a hot issue in the states of Washington and Ohio (see PHYSICS TODAY,May 2002,page 31).Evolutionary biology is ID's primary target,but geology and physics are within its blast zone.