PZ Myers to get Medieval on ID ass.

So PZ Myers is going to share the podium with a bunch of YECs* who want creationism taught in public schools. He'll win the debate, of course - because there is no argument to support the teaching of this stuff to anyone, let alone schoolchildren - but the pro-ID crowd in the audience won't know it. To be clear: Creationism and its souped-up new model, Intelligent Design, is neither science, philosophy, nor even religion. It's politics. Pure and simple. It's desperate, lunkheaded politics on the level of Birthers and shouts of "Obamacare wants to kill Gramma!" But the most galling thing about the whole manufactured "controversy" is that the proponents of creationism and ID theory know they're misrepresenting science, and they know that without constant references to the theory of evolution, their ersatz theory would have absolutely no talking points.

And that's the irony. Creationism and ID are dependent on evolution. Look, how many times have you read a creationism/ID article that doesn't use evolution as a lead-in? I haven't read one. On the other hand, how many evolution articles have you read that reference creationism or ID? Unless the article is explicitly about creationism or ID, you never do. Know why? 'Cause they don't need to.

I really hope someone at this debate will ask this question: "Explain intelligent design and list some of the evidence that supports it without any mention of evolution." They won't get an answer, because intelligent design theory is nothing more than a god-of-the-gaps argument.

*For some reason, the link to the article I am refering to in this blog didn't show up when I first posted it. Now you have it.