I am completely bored by the evolution-intelligent design-macaca debate, such that it is. When I am accused of being too much of a New Yorker, my frustration with this endless debate gives me solace that I am like countless Americans who do not spend their days and nights worrying exactly how we got here. Whatever science says — whatever is proven or not — I doubt there’s anything an archeologist is going to come up with that is going to turn my world upside down. And I think that’s, in the end, where very many Americans are. And we’d love to see the energy spent on knock-down-drag out debates on evolution-i.d.-macaca on something more directly pressing.