It seems that every time I turn around there is another report about the battle between Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent Design. 

Personally, I think the concept of Creationism is absurd.  I do not for a moment believe that creation story in Genesis is a factual account of what happened.  There was no ‘Poof!’ and there everything was.  I think the creation stories passed down to us from our various cultural ancestors were a way for early man to explain how things came into existence.  I look at thunder as being the anger of the gods this same way. 

Evolution is a scientific theory attempting to explain how life came to exist in the forms we see today. 

Intelligent Design is a religious'political theory attempting to explain who caused life to exist in the forms we see today.  Essentially, they are trying to say that something happened to create life, but life is so complex that it’s obvious someone had to be designing some portions – that these things could never have occurred by trial and error. 

One of the methods used to justify Intelligent Design as a science is by explaining everything that scientists cannot yet explain as being proof of intercession by a designer.  The absence of an explanation cannot be used as proof of intent.  That assumes that there are only two possible explanations and if something isn’t one then it must be the other.  Essentially, if science hasn't explained something then it must have a religious answer.

Intelligent Design pretends to be science but cannot be a scientific position because it’s not measurable nor is it reproducible.  As such, it has no room in scientific textbooks or science classes.  Its proper place is in the realm of religion and philosophy.

For the Regressive Right that is not acceptable.  The whole purpose for the debate is that Evolution contradicts Creationism - which is Correct and True.  Intelligent Design is a thinly disguised veil over Creationism that, purely for political purposes, is being pushed by Christian extremists.  They’re trying to appear moderate to people who believe in God and think that evolution could be just a way of explaining how He/She/It did it. 

Now, just because one believes in Evolution does not mean they do not believe in God.  I believe in God and I believe Evolution more accurately explains the origins of life than any other theory.  What I don’t believe is the fundamentalist stance that each and every word in the bible has been written by God and is the literal truth – it is instead a collection of writings and oral histories done by numerous humans.