(Un)intelligent Design

I actually watched something on C-SPAN last night: a forum on intelligent design at the American Enterprise Institute.

Like intelligent design itself, Mark Ryland, the representative from the Discovery Institute was more interested in intention than fact.
A smooth-talking, self-described "recovering lawyer," he marshalled Plato and Aristotle to his cause. He even hijacked a modern philosopher who has now shifted from an an atheistic to a theistic view of the world. It took Kenneth Miller, a Brown University biology professor and textbook author (we use his text at ELHS), to point out that said philosopher expressly disapproved of intelligent design.
Ryland also stated that the DI discouraged schools from trying to implement intelligent design into their curriuculum until a lawyer for the unfortunate Dover, PA school system, which had decided to do that just that, read from a DI manual on how to proceed in getting ID into a public school curriculum.

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