Op-Ed on ID

By BONNIE ERBE, Scripps Howard News Service
May 10, 2005

The two most vestigial locales in our otherwise great nation at the moment are
Kansas and Washington, D.C.


Kansas, because the stacked Board of Education there is staging the greatest
public-relations coup for organized religion since Emperor Constantine issued
the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D.


And Washington, D.C., because Christian evangelism is winning its power grab to
dominate government locally and nationally as payback for evangelical leaders'
part in George W. Bush's victory last November.


Any normal group of folks would have been so embarrassed by the widespread
rejection of the mystical fatuity of creationism that they would have quietly
departed the national scene and crawled back into oblivion.


Not this crowd.


Instead of "hitting bottom" and admitting their frailties as the path to
enlightenment, they went into a huddle and divined an equally ludicrous theory.
This time, however, they have put ribbons around the same old garbage can, but
coined a new term: "intelligent design."
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