Judge Jones’s recent ruling banning the teaching of intelligent design in Pennsylvania public schools has gotten a subtle thumbs up from the Vatican. The New York Times has the story.

The article is pretty great, especially since it casually crushes the Discovery Institute’s floundering line of reasoning, without much pretense to journalistic pseudo-objectivity:

There is no credible scientific challenge to the idea that evolution explains the diversity of life on earth, but advocates for intelligent design posit that biological life is so complex that it must have been designed by an intelligent source.