Sorry, my last link didn’t work. Here it is.

Several readers are worried (and a few gleeful) that I may be suffering from schizophrenia. On the one hand, here I am flailing away at the Intelligent Design people on NRO & by implication lining up with the ACLU meanies in the Dover trial. Meanwhile I’m getting beaten up by the academic lefties for my NRODT article–for having the temerity to suggest that human evolution is still going on.

I have LOTS to say about all this & have just agreed to do a Q&A for a conservative science website. I’ll post a link to that when it goes up.

In very brief: Yes, I think science is under attack from both Left and Right. I also believe that the attack from the Left is a MUCH bigger threat–better armed, more ferocious, and international. One of the things that annoys me about the Intelligent Design people, in fact, is that they are distracting conservative scientists from the real fight, obliging them to squander their energy, while intellectual Left-fascists like the editorial writer of Science Week hold the high ground.

There is a conservative case for science, and I intend to go on making it. Intelligent Design is not a part of that case. The entire net effect of the I.D. movement is to make it harder for scientists to take conservatism seriously. These latter-day William Jennings Bryans (and that, by the way, was a man who would have socked you on the jaw if you called him a conservative) are doing nothing for conservatism.