I snapped this on the way to the dump this morning:
I have no quarrel with the mystical belief that the awesome beauty, order, and complexity of the universe implies an intelligent first cause. In fact I believe it myself on alternating days. I just don’t think it has anything to do with science. If the proponents of Intelligent Design wanted to introduce it into philosophy or comparative religion classes, I would have no objection whatsoever. But that’s not what they want. ID is a pseudo-scientific theory ginned up for the sole purpose of opposing the scientific theory of evolution. That is utter nonsense. There is nothing in Darwinism that opposes or negates the idea of an intelligent designer. It just isn’t relevant. It is outside the sphere of scientific inquiry. It is an answer to one of the unanswerable-by-science questions.