People send me a lot of stuff on ID and evolution. I confess I don’t often

do more than glance over it, having got to the point where I am really,

REALLY surprised to encounter anything original in this area, any argument I

haven’t seen before.

In an idle moment, though, I started in on Lee Harris’s essay at Tech Central Station. Then I

couldn’t stop till I got to the end, though it’s rather long — over 20,000

words (i.e. around a quarter the length of your average modern novel). Try

it, if you have a quiet half hour to spare.

Samples:

“If human freedom and dignity mean anything, they should mean allowing
people to live in a world of preferred imaginings over living in one in
which an elite had imposed their own imagination–or perhaps even worse,
their own lack of imagination. …We desperately need to get back to the
good old American tradition of imagining the world in all sorts of exotic
and crazy ways. … On the other hand, my advice to the Christian
fundamentalists is: Keep Adam and Eve, but get rid of creationism. … If
faith and imagination comes first in your life, then science must come
somewhere else in the hierarchy, assuming that it appears at all…”