I know I’ve been off on a rampage about the teaching of “Intelligent Design.” But here’s a piece from the New York Times that explains more about the theory and argues that it isn’t a religion-motivated theory:

“Intelligent design proponents do question whether random mutation and natural selection completely explain the deep structure of life. But they do not doubt that evolution occurred. And intelligent design itself says nothing about the religious concept of a creator.”

It’s nice to see this theory laid out with a bit more detail, and I am cheered to see that it is something that is being discussed by the scientific community. But it still alarms me that we’re hesitating to teach children evolution and that some religious zealots are using this theory as a way to alter school curriculum.

And scientific theory or no, I’m still putting it in quotes. So there.