[Right Wing Professor]

You are absolutely in violation of your promise. You can discuss intelligent design without bashing religion. Yours was a deliberate, unprovoked and pointless attack on religion which proved nothing except your enmity towards religion.

Promoters of intelligent design have been have been testifying that ID is not a religion, all over the country, for the last ten years. By this argument, whatever I say about ID, it cannot be construed as an attack on religion.

You can't have it both ways. You can't demand that ID be given the respect afforded to a religion and then claim it's a scientific theory. If the desigenr is God, then it's a religion. If the designer is some unknown entity, then we can criticize the designer's handiwork without criticizing religion.

[gore3000]

Promoters of intelligent design have been have been testifying that ID is not a religion

Which is no excuse for hurling insults. As to the above - promoters of evolution have been claiming it is not a religion yet it is clearly atheism under the guise of science.