[rootkidslim]

I'm not qualified to comment on George Will's knowledge of either baseball, or science. My misapprehension of your post aside, do you think I raised an interesting question about the President's motives in my post #70? Maybe you would rather not get drawn into that. I didn't start questioning his forthrightness until he tried to sell me on the Miers nomination. But now I scrutinize everything he says carefully.

[js1138]

I think Bush was trying to straddle the fence. This is one of those issues that the democrats are trying to use to divide Republicans, and it appears to be a successful strategy. It's almost like the Discovery Institute is being funded by the DNC. Science goes where it goes. It's an entirely materalistic enterprize, and always will be. The ID issue is stupid on so many counts. The main proponents of ID accept common descent and a 4.5 billion year old earth. What do fundamentalists have to gain by pushing ID? It's a lose lose proposition.

On one hand they are asserting that religion should submit to the tests of scientific materialism. On the other hand they are splitting a political coalition that elects Republicans.