Time magazine’s conservative columnist, Charles Krauthammer of all people, trashes the notion that teaching “Intelligent Design” in public school science classes is even close to an OK idea. Here’s a choice excerpt from his essay this week:

What we are witnessing now is a frontier violation by the forces of religion. This new attack claims that because there are gaps in evolution, they therefore must be filled by a divine intelligent designer. How many times do we have to rerun the Scopes “monkey trial”? There are gaps in science everywhere. Are we to fill them all with divinity? There were gaps in Newton’s universe. They were ultimately filled by Einstein’s revisions. There are gaps in Einstein’s universe, great chasms between it and quantum theory. Perhaps they are filled by God. Perhaps not. But it is certainly not science to merely declare it so.

Meanwhile, a post over at Aravosis’s Americablog makes the point that I was trying to make yesterday (about Bush’s unwitting endorsement of cultural relativism) much better than I did:

Does the President believe students should be taught about astrology? Does the President believe students should be taught about crystals/New Age therapy? Does the President believe students should be taught both sides of the debate as to whether the Holocaust really happened? Does the President believe students should be taught the idea that the US landing on the moon was faked? Why not? There are dozens if not hundreds of books pushing this theory. A certain percentage of the population believes it and it was even the subject of a primetime documentary on Fox? What possible justification could the President offer for keeping this “debate” from students? And why doesn’t that justification apply to creationism as well?