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This logical flaw and a general interest in science and technology is probably why a large number of political and social conservatives not only have not embraced ID, but actively defend evolution on dozens of internet forums and boards, such as Free Republic. Many conservatives find ID to be an embarrassment to the conservative movement.

Ah, a modest recognition of Darwin Central's contribution to the preservation of Western Civilization.

You have done more than that. Conservative values and rational values have to be consistent. You have stood up for both, eloquently.

Evolution is really a very beautiful set of inter-connected insights, from the green porphyrin ring of chlorophyll to the red porphyrin of hemoglobin; from grasses growing at their base to the rise of large herbivores; from the oft-repeated bilateral symmetries to common reproductive systems. Evolution makes sense out of the enormous variety of observations, drawing richly on biology, geology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, and almost all of what we have come to know about our world. It really is beautiful. And more beautiful than the random, ad hoc super-natural interventions imagined by the IDists.