Derb – I knew you were doomed to assault from the intelligent design folks the second you brought it up. It’s one of those topics that really animates folks. For the record, I enjoyed Michael Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box, but I’m generally agnostic about the whole intelligent design thing. By agnostic I mean I certainly don’t preclude the possibility that science will find evidence of God’s existence in a way that will persuade some of the science-minded. But basically, I find ID interesting for its case against Darwin rather than its case for God. I believe in evolution, but I find the various critiques of evolutionary theory to be interesting and enlightening.