Hell has Frozen Over

I agree with Charles Krauthammer completely.

"Let's be clear. Intelligent design may be interesting as theology, but as science it is a fraud. It is a self-enclosed, tautological "theory" whose only holding is that when there are gaps in some area of scientific knowledge -- in this case, evolution -- they are to be filled by God. It is a 'theory' that admits that evolution and natural selection explain such things as the development of drug resistance in bacteria and other such evolutionary changes within species but also says that every once in a while God steps into this world of constant and accumulating change and says, "I think I'll make me a lemur today." A "theory" that violates the most basic requirement of anything pretending to be science -- that it be empirically disprovable. How does one empirically disprove the proposition that God was behind the lemur, or evolution -- or behind the motion of the tides or the 'strong force' that holds the atom together?"

And that's just one paragraph. I agree with the rest of it too. I'm a little surprised that Krauthammer is so hard on these numbskulls, considering in the past he's defended their right to spread Christmas cheer all over America. But that's politics and this is science, and Krauthammer is a hard-core proponent of stem-cell research and the like so he's not really being inconsistent.

Anyway if I'm praising a Krauthammer column then it must be a good read, right? Go check it out.