[NU Sports] Intelligent design; uninformed response

[Dennis W. Brandt]

 Since I live in the county where the "intelligent design" controversy arose
 (and it occurred in the school which my mother and all her siblings 
attended
 umpteen years ago), I have to tell you that any comparison between the the
 Scopes Monkey Trial and the Intelligent Design case are purely in the minds
 of uninformed "progressives," i.e., many of whom would love to see most of
 this country's traditions squashed flatter than the Northwestern University
 women's soccer team.  The Dover Area school board decided to read to its
 students one brief statement to the effect that there just might have been
 some intelligence behind the creation of the universe.  That's it.  Once 
and
 done.  There were no requirements that anyone read Genesis.  No tests on 
the
 Old Testament.  No teaching of religion.  Some expressed suspicion that
 there was a more nefarious plot behind it all, but they didn't offer much
 proof.  In short, it was much ado about nothing blown into mountainous
 proportions simply because conservative Christians are the progressives'
 current target for bigotry.  (See Oregon State's recent highjinx, et. al.)
 Voters sent most of the board packing the following election not so much
 because of their alleged fundamentalist bent but because the community was
 sick to death of hearing about it and wanted to move on.

 There you have it:  One devout agnostic's view of the subject.  I for one
 would be ecstatic to trade arguments with a so-called progressive.