(un)Intelligent Design

I'm ok with the president's idea of teaching Intelligent Design (ID for short) in public schools - as long as they explain that the intelligent designer could be the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Actually, if ID want to be known as a scientific theory, it has some work to do. Someone needs to explain how anything about ID is provable in a scientific sense. For more on the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

http://www.venganza.org/

The author has written the Kansas school board to press for the teaching of FSMism in addition to other types of ID. He goes on to explain that the respectful way to do this is while wearing a pirate costume. Don't miss the graph showing the inverse correlation between average global temperature and the pirate population.

Here's a fine rant about ID from Kung Fu Monkey:

Warning: contains phrases like:...if my choice were between these cowards who would turn back the Enlightenment and anal-probing yet intellectually honest Martians, I would grit my teeth, vote for the Martians and learn to visualize my Happy Place during my Probe-Center appointment

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/08/president-and-intelligent-design.html

I found that on James Wolcott's blog:

http://www.jameswolcott.com/

who can turn a pretty vivid phrase himself.

Here's a discussion of popular ID tactics (and what to do about them):

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/2/202836/2500

Hint: be sure to refer to them as flat-earthers.

Darksyde has written a lot of other postings on Daily Kos on ID.