Intelligent Design

For anyone aware of the Intelligent Design controversy in the U.S. (basically the idea that man was created by an intelligent designer should be tought as an alternative to evolution in science classes), there was a significant court ruling yesterday in Pennsylvania. The judge essentially said "no way, ID is just creationism warmed over". The ruling is scathing, and worth a quick scan if you are into that sort of thing :-) Another strong argument against ID is Incompetent Design.

As an aside, Liam and I were watching a TV show about chimps in zoos and how they make artificial termite mounds so the chimps can poke out food with twigs. I mentioned that they were the only animals to use tools, and Liam interjects essentially that humans then grew from chimps. Out of the mouth of babes...