The attack on intelligent design reminds me of that old saw about the guy who always asks if “you are still beating your wife?” The underlying purpose is not to right wrongs but to disparage.
Lets face it. Intelligent design is, if you allow a further mixing of metaphors, a dead horse. Why continue to flog it?
The answer, I think, is not about enlightenment, but to further castigate religion, sell books, and to feed the frenzy of the militant atheism faithful. If the idea were to enlighten, then dialogue and working towards an understanding would be called for.
Perhaps it is time to ask why Mr. Dawkins wants evolution to be a creation myth in a mano-i-mano competition against intelligent design. Don’t we deserve science, not sectarian combat?
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