That so-called "theory"

You're going to think I've really flipped out quoting right-winger Charles Krauthammer but this is really too good to pass up. Krauthammer just might incur the wrath of the religious right for what he says here and it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Anyway, he's published a column in the Washington Post entitled, "Phony Theory, False Conflict". I found it by way of AMERICAblog. Here's part of what it says:

Let's be clear. Intelligent design may be interesting as theology, but as science it is a fraud. It is a self-enclosed, tautological "theory" whose only holding is that when there are gaps in some area of scientific knowledge -- in this case, evolution -- they are to be filled by God. It is a "theory" that admits that evolution and natural selection explain such things as the development of drug resistance in bacteria and other such evolutionary changes within species but also says that every once in a while God steps into this world of constant and accumulating change and says, "I think I'll make me a lemur today." A "theory" that violates the most basic requirement of anything pretending to be science -- that it be empirically disprovable. How does one empirically disprove the proposition that God was behind the lemur, or evolution -- or behind the motion of the tides or the "strong force" that holds the atom together?

In order to justify the farce that intelligent design is science, Kansas had to corrupt the very definition of science, dropping the phrase " natural explanations for what we observe in the world around us," thus unmistakably implying -- by fiat of definition, no less -- that the supernatural is an integral part of science. This is an insult both to religion and science.

Well, Dover, Pennsylvania threw out the school board that tried to institute "intelligent design". But, as mentioned above, Kansas voted it in, changing the definition of science in the process. If this continues across the country, we are certainly entering a new dark age.