Guest Post by Morbo
About twice a year, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer writes a piece that actually makes sense. One ran last week. It is about “intelligent design” and is worth a look.
Krauthammer called ID “today’s tarted-up version of creationism.” It’s a good line, and I wish I had thought of it.
As I read the rest of the column, I kept waiting for Krauthammer to insert some snarky attack on liberals, perhaps something like, “As everyone knows, Bill Clinton is a scumbag, Hillary Clinton is a conniving, power-mad hell hag and Al Gore is clinically insane. But none of this means that intelligent design makes any sense.”
He did not do so. Instead he wrote:
How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of life forms, distinct and yet interactive, all ultimately derived from accumulated variations in a single double-stranded molecule, pliable and fecund enough to give us mollusks and mice, Newton and Einstein? Even if it did give us the Kansas State Board of Education, too.
Nicely stated. Check out the column now because by next week whatever medication Krauthammer is on will undoubtedly have worn off.