Granted, columnists don't always write the headlines for their articles, but this headline is pretty revealing. Recall, the case on which the Dover Area School District based teaching Intelligent Design / Intelligent Origin Theory was that ID/IOT is not religion and is, in fact, science. So what is Klinghoffer's article headlined?
It’s God or Darwin
Reading further in the article, I see:
...it only follows Charles Darwin, who wrote the Origin of Species as an exercise in seeking to explain how life could have got to be the way it is without recourse to divine creative activity. In a pious mode intended to disarm critics, he concluded his book by writing of "laws impressed on matter by the Creator." However readers immediately saw the barely concealed point of the work: to demonstrate there was no need for "laws impressed on matter" by a Creator.
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And this, I think, is why some Darwin advocates dislike religion. It's why they fight it with such passion: Because negating religion is the reason behind their belief system. To their credit, they recognize a truth that others prefer not to see. That is: One may choose Darwin or one may choose God.
The Discovery Institute can chant all day that ID/IOT is not about religion, but here's a senior fellow at that same insitution who firmly tells us otherwise.
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