Charles Krauthammer’s syndicated essay against intelligent design ran opposite mine in today’s Seattle Times. The piece is full of problems, which Tom Gilson and Lawrence Seldon explore in loving detail here and here.

Now I would have framed a couple of points in their otherwise fine analysis a little differently. In one place,

Gilson describes agnostic David Berlinski as an ID proponent. It would be more precise to call Berlinski a Darwin skeptic and friendly critic of design theory. Also, Seldon writes that Krauthammer “rants about Dover and Kansas … writing out of ignorance and knocking down a straw man.” To be generous, I would have said that Krauthammer “writes calmly and authoritatively out of ignorance, knocking down a straw man.”

I’m rooting for Krauthammer to do his homework and, like British philosopher Antony Flew, change his mind.