Finally--an evangelical who GETS IT

Newsweek's running an otherwise-unremarkable article on the evolution debate on college campuses in their college rag Current. It really just makes a few comments on the dilemma presented to strict creationist students when they leave the sheltered confines of a Christian high school to join the real world where we conduct research instead of consulting bronze-age mythology for the answers. (ok, not exactly a fair-and-impartial summary, i'll grant you, but its my website, so bugger off...)

One quote did jump out at me:

Buchanan himself is an evangelical Christian and believes that it is
important to discuss origin theories that contradict evolution, because
“in science, we are always looking at alternatives.” He
cautions, however, that the current incarnation of intelligent design
theory has not reached the viability necessary to be taught in a
college science class.

Yes! Finally someone who gets it! Intelligent design advocates are constantly accusing the legitimate science community of kow-towing to evolutionary theory as though its some kind of ideology and refusing to consider alternate points of view on the idea of the origins of the world--an accusation invariably followed with their own presentation of ID as an alternate scientific theory. Here we finally see someone who understands that the scientific community as a community (barring the odd geek/nerd who refuses to consider such things) does and has always entertained the notion of alternatives and/or restatements of existing theories, when they're backed by legitimate and rational discourse and presentation of evidence. The ID community, however, has done neither. Instead of pursuing science they're simply trying to attack it by waging a PR assault against it--a tactic that is unfortunately effective as most people neither have the background to challenge or evaluate their assertions nor the inclination to do so, since ID is preaching what they want to believe anyway.

To Dr. Buchanan I say "Bravo".