[G.Mason]

" ... The isolated quotation [organisms “appear to have been carefully and artfully designed”] strips out the implied emphasis on “appear to”, leaving exactly what a simple-mindedly pious audience — in Kansas, for instance — wants to hear."

What a pomous English a$$. This bloke has as much of an idea of what people in Kansas think as the U.S. Senate.

[Right Wing Professor]

This bloke has as much of an idea of what people in Kansas think as the U.S. Senate.

I live 50 miles from the Kansas state line. I can say what I like about Kansans; it's a right enshrined in the Nebraska state constitution. I think he's being too kind to Kansans in calling them simple-minded and pious; I'd say the ones who promote ID are also pig-ignorant, and resentful of people whose view of the Universe doesn't depend on what looks like an increasingly unlikely creation myth.