[js1138]

Common descent is neither here nor there.

If the Dover school board thought that way, there would have been no interference with the science curriculum and no court case.

I have been checking this on FR for about six months now and have found only a couple of "ID" supporters who openly accept common descent. The majority of FReepers on these threads do not accept common descent and are surprised to find people like Behe take common descent for granted.

The fight over mechanisms will eventually come down to molecular biology and mathematics.

[jwalsh07]

I would argue against universal common descent if I was pushed on the matter if one defines the universal common antecedent as a single cell. But again it is neither here nor there in my world view.

What affects me and mine are judicail activists and their rooting sections. I'll argue that all day long without prodding.