I WANNA BE WHERE THE BRIGHTS ARE SHININ' ON ME (via Ali Choudhury):

Intelligent Design, and Other Dumb Ideas (Mac Johnson, 11/15/2007, Human Events)

A few short years ago, nobody had ever heard of “Intelligent Design” (ID). Today it is alleged to be one of the hot button issues of our times, the latest front in the culture wars. The sudden prominence of ID is traceable, in my opinion, to two factors.

One is that, even ten years ago, ID had enough confidence and honesty to go by its birth name, “Creationism.” Whereas today, it has been dressed up in a lab coat and a mail order Ph.D. and is trying to pass itself off as a scientific theory, thus the sudden re-branding as “Intelligent Design.”

The other reason is that the mainstream media (and other spokesmen for the liberal establishment) love the idea of associating the conservative movement with ID, so ID has gotten much more than its fair share of press time.

The Left believes, correctly, that Intelligent Design is a political loser, and so they gleefully attempt to hang it around the neck of every right-of-center movement from libertarian neo-conservatism to isolationist populism -- shouting all the while “See, the American Taliban has come for your children! Elect a Democrat before it’s too late!”

Pssst...in a democracy, the 13% side is the political loser. Republicans win every time a Bright lectures Americans on how stupid they are to believe that Creation is a product of intelligent design. And, at the point where the Darwinists try to explain that evolution is like the entirely natural and random development of languages, which shows that no intelligent design is involved, they become such laughingstocks that the contest turns into a rout.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 19, 2007 12:31 PM