Balloon Juice has some goodies on the motivation for Intelligent Design.
I think it’s interesting to place Christian fundamentalist anxiety about diminishing influence side-by-side with Salman Rushdie’s call for an Islamic reformation.
Followers of religions based on ancient holy books need to get with the program and realize that “Origin of Species” was just as much divinely inspired as the books of the Hebrews, Christians, and Muslims, if not more so.
Nice read that, there is a good argument that great ideas have divine inspiration behind them. As a favorite pastor of mine points out to those who try to discern God’s word to them in scripture (yep, let the Bible fall open and choose whatever words pop out at you) or in events (ray of sunshine, lightning strike), that God gave us minds to think with is probably as sound an indication of divine intent as any other.