If you are as scientifically uninclined as I am, you too might be a little concerned by the recent spate of coverage being given to intelligent design theory, which straddles a halfpoint between evolutionary theory and creationism, arguing in essence that cells are so complex that they had to be developed by some sort of intelligent creator, even if evolution did occur once those cells were created. If you are curious about why evolutionists do not give credence to these theories, and why we don't need to let Kansas be a guide for the whole nation in its search for parity between evolution and I.D., read H. Allen Orr's piece in the New Yorker, where he dissects the arguments of the two leading I.D.ers and explains the falsehoods associated with I.D.

Biologists aren’t alarmed by intelligent design’s arrival in Dover and elsewhere because they have all sworn allegiance to atheistic materialism; they’re alarmed because intelligent design is junk science. Meanwhile, more than eighty per cent of Americans say that God either created human beings in their present form or guided their development. As a succession of intelligent-design proponents appeared before the Kansas State Board of Education earlier this month, it was possible to wonder whether the movement’s scientific coherence was beside the point. Intelligent design has come this far by faith.